Threshold Concept #1Photography has many genres, some old, some borrowed, some new e.g (still life, landscape, portraiture). Some artists experiment with reality.
...in the same way that a [film] poster creates an expectation for the film, so a genre in photography - portraiture, landscape, still life, documentary etc. - creates an expectation for the meanings to be derived from that type of photograph. Each genre creates an expectation for particular types of understanding. Whether the photograph gratifies that expectation is another matter.
-- From Photography: The Key Concepts by David Bate. |