{"id":289497,"date":"2020-12-05T22:55:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T03:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=289497"},"modified":"2020-12-05T22:58:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T03:58:55","slug":"photographers-are-artists-artists-are-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/05\/photographers-are-artists-artists-are-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographers Are Artists; Artists Are Photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Too long we have separated the two. No, we must integrate them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A photographer is an artist. Artists are also photographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost everyone I know who is interested in photography has an artistic spine and bones within them. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simply a matter of other artists who act pretentious and try to talk down on photographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography as just another medium or media, as Aristotle said (On the Soul).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So photographers … we express our souls via the medium or media of photography?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No photograph is sacred. We can remix, reshape, glitch, filter, adapt, change, paint, sketch, or trace our photos and repurpose them as we see fit!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A type of photo \u00e2\u20ac\u0153upcycling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Photographic renewal, visual energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n