Photographers

Watch the following video: Early Photography: Making Daguerreotypes (5:43) https://www.you​tube.com/watch?​v=N0Ambe4FwQk Question: What separates people who "take pictures" from photographers? Why have photographers struggled to be considered artists?

   There are several reasons that separates people who take pictures compared to photographers. The first is that people that take pictures do it because they want to capture a certain moment. This could be anything from their meal to a selfie. On the other hand a photographer has an extensive amount of equipment to capture a specific image that evokes a certain tine or message. The photographer might even have to set up what he or she is going to take a picture of. A photographer goes around and takes pictures for a living. This could extend to weddings, or the landscape like Peter Lik.

   Photographers have struggled to be considered artist because at the beginning of its creation it was considered a science instead of art. So when the public majority considers it to be science and then someone comes along and thinks of it another way. They will often receive backlash and it will take a long period of time to change the culture. An artist that paints has to get the paint and create the image. On the other hand a photographer doesn't have to create nothing as all they have to do is capture a moment that is already in existence. They didn't create it just captured it. And so to the public at this time that wasn't considered art as it was as almost you plagiarized nature and other things that were already created.