A Photographers Eye

A photographers Eye by Szarkowski brings up the idea the many people over time have said that photography is not actually an art form and instead it just presents what the real world shows. This however is not accurate according to Szarkowski who say that photography is an art form because it is all about the prospective of the person behind the camera. The invention of photography gave people who could not afford expensive paintings a chance to be a part of the art world. With photography people were able purchase a camera, take and print pictures of whatever they wanted for a very cheap price compared to paintings. This then added to the idea that anyone can be a photographer and it is not a real form of art. To contradict this there is a lot more to photography then just looking through a lens and pressing a button, photographers that are really good at what they do know how catch detail of the scene around them (which can not be done to the same extent in painting) pick a subject that is interesting and then place themselves in a position that catches the picture like the normal eye would not see it. Even after this though people would say that anyone can do that, and this is true but many people do not know how to capture the scene in a way that the human eye would not normally see the scene.  Photography is unlike any form of artwork, it has given a view of the world but at the same time it gave people ho are not artists a chance to be involved in the art world. Then of course it gave people the ability to capture a moment in time that will never happen again and that itself is priceless.