tim_gundry

Firstly, many thanks to everyone who has kindly contributed to this discussion, I've got plenty of food for thought and some excellent comments that I can weave into my dissertation.

Apologies for the slightly ambiguous terms - by pictorial I was refering to the 'Picturesque' - essentially landscape photography, but ultimately any style which places emphasis on the aesthetic. It does appear in the culture of post modernism that the picturesque is seen as cliched. Artists using photography as their medium of choice often seem to have little concern for the aesthetic qualities of the medium. I see the true 'art of photography' as being the 'art of drawing with light'. Maybe I'm too much of a purist - but I'd like to see more emphasis in the gallery space on creative and technical skill, using the medium to create an aesthetic experience. This type of photography does seem to have become marginalised and is rarely seen as art by the majority of critics and gallery owners.

Anyway, that's just an opinion. Thanks again for your views, please feel free to add any further comments!

Best Regards

I'm currently studying for a BA in Photomedia and Design

Communication and I've decided to look at the nature of Post Modern

Photography - in particular the apparrent death of the pictorial

image in Post Modern Photographic Art. Pictorial images are often

malligned as being outdated and meaningless in relation to the ideas

driven imagery of post modernism - but as a lover of aesthetic beauty

in photography, I wonder if this criticism is justified. Surely

there is room in the gallery for imagery that simply aims to please

without necssarily confronting issues? Any comments?