Can Art be a Goal or is Art what we call Work that Sustains our Interest?

[mizore]

<p>I don't think Art as Goal is the same as choosing a theme for a series of photographs. The natural unit for photography may be the photo essay or something like it with fewer worlds. </p>

<p>Kinda tangentially, I'm reminded of my graduate director saying that when we look at a statue pointing, we never turn around to see what it pointing at. In photography, the frame and context around the photo is always very much implied, unless someone choses to do less representational photography or use graphic manipulations of various kinds (collage, digital manipulations).</p>

<p>We might wonder what someone in a photograph is pointing to.</p>