The photographer is that which “takes” a Photographie with a film camera. He is generally regarded by it as the author because he builds appearance like all of it Artiste. He can be photo hobbyist or professional photograph if he earns his living with his Article.

The creation of a photograph can be limited to the taken of sight or engage the totality of the manufacturing process of the Image until its final presentation, whatever the support. A photograph can be the work of a person or a team. Generally, if it is about a team, this one is made up of the photographer and a technician of laboratory. The work of laboratory (silver pulling, digital processing, even of other rarer techniques) can completely modify the appearance of a catch of sight. Artistic dimension can be as well in the catch of sight as in work of laboratory, even if generally it is that which made the catch of sight which is regarded as the artist, the technician being rather regarded as a craftsman.

Like the painter, the photographer is an artist of the glance. The technique is only one tool more or less faithful to rebuild, even transform, the initial glance.

The photographer generally gives a specific personality to his work. The destination of work is generally the source of this personalization. A pilot photograph of a process or a technical state to memorize will often not have characteristics Esthétique S volunteers. At the beginning of photography, great debates took place between the painters and the photographers and of many knowledge and practices interacted between these two activities. If the photographer built himself on the painter of which it “usurped” historically the exclusiveness in the field of the image, the painter was deeply influenced by the photographic technique, it obliging to affirm his specificity, the object of his images and the human flexibility of his technique. But certain painters reduced their art to that of a technician of photographic laboratory, using another technique to recopy with the hand a photograph.

Usually, one categorizes the photographers, like the painters, by the type of images which they make. Photographers comparable to the traditional painters (Landscape S, natural dead, naked, etc), photojournalists giving series of images of an event, photographers of such or such human activity, creative photographers of imagined or real images. Certain photographers specialize on a type of image, others are general practitioners.

The distinction between photography of art and Photojournalisme or other types of more technical photographs - that one meets sometimes - does not withdraw this personal aspect with the work of the large artists of the Photographie since a little less than two centuries.

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Internal bonds

• List of photographers
• Painting
• Painters

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