Picture Perfect....: Press Photography Vs Art photography

Photographer: Denis Straughan
Source( http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2009/03/04/press-photography-awards )

Photographer: Ann Dahlgren and Douglas Foulke
                     Source:( http://www.photography.ca/blog/tag/ann-dahlgren/ )

There are plenty differences and similarities of both press and art photography. Press photographs are taken to carry out news to people of the public there taken to tell a story mainly through pictures. The word “Press” means to print out and expose the information through the newspaper to the people of the public. The photographers who take these photos usually pack light, they don’t need too much equipment to capture their story they also don’t aim to capture the abstract of the picture. The press photographers take pictures of mostly people on there good and bad out takes. Pictures that are taken by the press aren’t meant to capture a true meaning but reality.

Art photographs are taken to capture a moment, feeling, and emotion in a picture. Its captured or crated to express the way the photographer feels. Art photographs is also known to have a creative vision in the photographers eyes as an artist, Which provides a visual outlook of the person who comes across the picture. The Similarities of both press photographs and art Photographs are that they both tell a story just in different ways. They both capture live moments that speak out to the people of the public. Both press and art photographs are creative ways of telling a story.

In my own opinion Press Photography is not ethical or acceptable to be altered because I feel that sometimes its not always what it seems, the picture may show the truth but it’s the way the photographer portrays it. Press photography is meant to tell the public news through a still picture but sometimes that photographer behind that camera make the place or person of the photograph look horrible, its also reality. I do think Art photograph is ethical and acceptable simply because it’s capturing the truth and the beauty of the photographer creativity. There is nothing wrong with capturing the truth or man kind.