Fine Art Photography

How to critically analyse a picture

Fine Art Photography

Fine art photography is photography created in accordance with the vision of the artist as photographer.

Fine art Photography is a visual art whose products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content.

Discourses on Fine art:

•Something technically, aesthetically that we can’t do (skill)

•Challenges and questions basic human needs and desires

•A place in time of cultural significance

Dennotations- 

the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.

Dancer

Black and white

Motion

flowing white dress

The picture is of a woman dancing, she was in the middle of a motion when the picture was taken so her dress is flowing. The picture was taken in black and white so the shadows are emphasized.

Connotations- 

the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning

Romance 

Elegance 

angelic

beauty

statue

The picture shows a woman dancing, from the poise she is in she looks quite angelic as she is wearing a white dress and it looks like she is flying thanks to the fact that it was taken in motion. Angels are also linked to beauty and grace. Because the picture is in black and white the woman looks like a very detailed statue. 

Punctum-

the expression of concentration within the dancer 

The punctum for me is the deep shadows on the dress. This is because my eyes are drawn towards the darkest points between the lightest points of the picture. This could have connotations to the yin and yang symbol, how there is the duality of two tones forming a whole.

Studium-

A woman dancing.

Commercial photography 

photography created with the intent of making the end user money; essentially, photography for commerce and business.

Commercial photography may have several subgenres such as

•Travel, architectural, food,  fashion, etc.

Fine art and commercial photography are different because commercial photography is used for promoting or selling a product, and fine art photography is an expression of events or feelings.