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Photographers take themselves far too seriously. They are also on the whole uptight about whether or not the world takes what they do as an art form – even after some 150 years.Lighten up folks!
The art of painting liberated itself from the shackles of academic "correctness" before the turn of the 19th century. The Impressionists, the Cubists, the Pointillists and all of the other movements at the time said – "Screw it. Straight representational painting has gotten boring. Let's shake things up". And thus we ended up with Picasso, Chagal, Degas, Monet and the rest of the gang that revitalized painting in the late 19th and early 20th Century.
But photography has always been the Nervous Nelly of the arts. "Please take me seriously",photographers chant. "Look – this is just the way it was when I saw it. No Photoshopping (I'd rather go camera shopping), no tricks up my sleeve. I didn't change a thing"!
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