What is "Pure photography?"

Pierre

If there is anything impure then, like any other human endeavour, its to do with lazyness, uncommitted apathy, copying, envy etc. Pure Photography is the level of dedication, self and mindfulness you put into the pursuit of this medium of expression.

Beautifully said...

HipShot

My idea of pure photography is getting up early in the morning to prospect for visual gold.

DaveyJ

I think of "pure photography" as doubtful. One of the two accepted "inventors" of photography faked his own death. Photography is an application of equipment and the technique and visualization. Somewhere in the mix there may be substantial amounts of talent and artistic creativity involved. When I photograph I think of what I do as mostly documentation and do rarely does any thought of purity or art enter my mind. I do have close friends who do try to be artistic and I for one think they achieve this. Yet as a marketing technique I do think Nikon is not that far out there and they have a right and a reason to market in they way they have. I myself think video should be included in pure photography yet i accept that few would give much credence to that opinion. I can recall still photo sequences of particularly Mudridge (studies in motion of horses, humans, etc.) and Ansel Adams(particularly his wave sequences) which was to me wonderful art and science and Mudridge's motion sequences led to the development of motion pictures.

DaveyJ

My above reference is to Muybridge (Eadweard, English, 1830-1904). I should edit my posts before clicking on Post Comment. I have a limited time I can be on the Internet and that does not help at all. Hipshot's comment is eloquent and makes me realize again why I love taking photos at times. All in all I think Nikon has a pretty good ad campaign here and it should help their sales.

spraynpray

@DaveyJ

If you see something wrong with your post, look above it and you will see an edit button so you can go back in and change it - no need for a second post.

Vipmediastar_JZ

@donald no thank you to DOS computing. Im happy with GUI computing.

DaveyJ

spraynpray: Thank you! I have forgotten that feature existed!

sevencrossing

Nearly a year after I stared this thread I think I have my answer

Pure Photography = Pure Nostalgia

snakebunk

Is there any kind of photography that is considered not pure?

sevencrossing

I quite like the idea of doing some impure photography

heartyfisher

If there is anything impure then, like any other human endeavour, its to do with lazyness, uncommitted apathy, copying, envy etc. Pure Photography is the level of dedication, self and mindfulness you put into the pursuit of this medium of expression.

Beautifully said...

Cool did I say that ! I must have breathed in few of the fungi I was shooting...

heartyfisher

@donald no thank you to DOS computing. Im happy with GUI computing.

LOL! I have a quite a few GUI windows open at the moment but I also have 3 windows with command prompts blinking at me :-) .

spraynpray

Nearly a year after I stared this thread I think I have my answer

Pure Photography = Pure Nostalgia

That probably should have been fairly obvious sooner from the retro looks of the Df, but yes, to some extent I agree that is part of it because photography has perhaps becomes less 'pure' since it has become possible to change the captured image to such a large extent.

sevencrossing

Time to turn on the red light, dig out the silver nitrate, pot iodide, pot brom and hyposulphite of soda and all those Patterson gadgets that littered the darkroom

snakebunk

According to wikipedia: Pure photography is defined as possessing no qualities of technique, composition or idea, derivative of any other art form.

haroldp

According to wikipedia: Pure photography is defined as possessing no qualities of technique, composition or idea, derivative of any other art form.

Loose translation, there is no such thing.

Most of what we call photography is derivative of the 'realistic' style of paintings. Painters in the late renaissance even used optics to project an image onto canvas or other media and paint over it, acting as emulsion or sensor.

I am sure they were accused of 'impure' painting.

... H

sevencrossing

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I am sure they were accused of 'impure' painting.

... H

Vermeer was indeed accused of photoshopping "Girl with a pearl earring"

Vipmediastar_JZ

What is Pure Photography? Camera+Lens+Light=Pure photography. I'm not sure that Zack Arias video represents that but I do tend to have too much noise in my head right now but I plan to change that starting today.

I really enjoyed this video

snakebunk

According to wikipedia: Pure photography is defined as possessing no qualities of technique, composition or idea, derivative of any other art form.

Loose translation, there is no such thing.

I am not sure what you mean but here is the link if you want to read more about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_photography

WestEndBoy

What is Pure Photography? Camera+Lens+Light=Pure photography. I'm not sure that Zack Arias video represents that but I do tend to have too much noise in my head right now but I plan to change that starting today.

I really enjoyed this video

Bravo!!!