Do We Actually Believe Landscape Photography is Art

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This entire episode of The Landscape Photography Show is derived from one tweet that led me down a long rabbit hole.

Photography is creativity in a straitjacket. Yeah, you have plenty of artistic latitude, but there’s still an expectation by your audience of representing a real moment.

-Richard Bernabe (@bernabephoto)

There are so many words and visuals within that tweet that tormented me for weeks.

I dove deep into the history surrounding our icon in landscape photography, Ansel Adams, and his journey through this same argument. I found that Ansel had haters too and even questioned his newly-discovered style of photography.

This discussion will have many layers, but that’s because creativity is not linear, it’s cyclical.

After listening to this episode of The Landscape Photography Show, I hope that you will have a better understanding of photography in the art world. However, more importantly, I hope that you will have a better understanding of your journey through artistic photography.

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