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I've been pondering this for a while (months if not years on-and-off) and not come to any sort of conclusion so I thought I would trouble TP with it.
And now I come to ask on here I have typed this line half a dozen times and I still can't find appropriate words. Suffice it to say that there are some photographers whose work has more "meaning", or perhaps has more "meaning" attributed to it than others, I'm thinking of people like Gregory Crewdson, Navad Kander, Martin Parr, William Eggleston, Ansel Adams, Faye Godwin, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Bill Brant, Robert Adams
So the question is: is there an umbrella term for this kind of work?
It feels to me that there should be, beyond terms like documentary, landscape, portraiture, fine art, etc. which are essentially categories by subject or style and make no distinction between a phone snap and something worthy of say a major gallery exhibition.
And now I come to ask on here I have typed this line half a dozen times and I still can't find appropriate words. Suffice it to say that there are some photographers whose work has more "meaning", or perhaps has more "meaning" attributed to it than others, I'm thinking of people like Gregory Crewdson, Navad Kander, Martin Parr, William Eggleston, Ansel Adams, Faye Godwin, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Bill Brant, Robert Adams
So the question is: is there an umbrella term for this kind of work?
It feels to me that there should be, beyond terms like documentary, landscape, portraiture, fine art, etc. which are essentially categories by subject or style and make no distinction between a phone snap and something worthy of say a major gallery exhibition.