Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

Photo art
Most cases in which someone takes a photograph, the aim probably only is to document an event or a person
for themselves and their loved ones' sake. In addition, a lot of pictures are taken to sell goods or to illustrate
articles. But in addition, there are photographic artists and those creating pictures to entertain a general
audience. For one who does not appreciate artistic photography, however, the entertainment value is zero.
Though those who choose to study a book with art photographs, goes to galleries or photo exhibitions must
surely find something amusing in this.
Since a practical shooting techniques wasn’t invented until 1826, artistic photography has a very short
history. In addition, the art form has not, as the painted art, passed through a number of different eras with
different styles. Older photographs depicts, as well as newer ditto, often people who somehow are posing for
the camera and the finished work depicts a relatively objectively who stood in front of the lens. For example,
of the 261 photographic works of various ages who were sold on an auction in Stockholm May 4, 2011
almost half (128 of them) depicted people. Forty of these persons were celebrities and 27 were more or less
naked persons.
It also appear as images of celebrities and/or naked people are more popular that buy photographic art, as
photos of celebrities on average paid 26 400 SEK (for the works that were sold), and for the more or less
naked motives customers paid in average 26 862 SEK. While the works that depicted urban environments,
landscapes, country houses or anything else, on average, in average was bought for 15 869 SEK, 13 110, 10
000 and 21 203 SEK. Moreover, a majority (73%) of the photos in the auction was black and white, as the
first generations of photos.
The examples of
photo objects in
an ad for
Bukowskis
photo auction
November 10-15
2011.
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