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Why do you take photos? Mostly to document your life, or create art? I'm curious to hear why people take photographs here. Mostly as a way to remember and document events? Or to capture beauty in the world?
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Document life
Amit Gupta
2074 days ago
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From when I was little, I took photos as 'art'. Hated it when my parents tried to get me to include family members in our vacation shots. 
That started to change in college.. and nowadays I've almost completely swayed over to using photography to document. I still take photos all the time, but I'm a lot less concerned about how 'good' it looks than I used to be.
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Art
UN_filler
2074 days ago
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I guess I take photos, not really for any of the above, but mainly because it is a passion of mine and a very great passion at that.
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Art
UN_filler
2074 days ago
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I'd say it's a bit of both but lately it's more for the art. Even when I'm taking pictures to document life (say at family gatherings, on vacations, etc.) I try for the shots where the people don't look posed. I'd sooner catch them in the act of something - not knowing I'm there. That way I document life but it comes out looking more like art.
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Art
Ankou
2074 days ago
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Art
UN_filler
2074 days ago
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I take my photos for the artistic value of every single one I take. I like to feast my eyes upon something I know I took. The satisfaction after taking a great photograph is great. I like to take photos of all things natural. It's also a hobby and every time I daze at something interesting I wonder how great of a photo that would be.
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Art
chrisulloa
2074 days ago
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I'd say both, but moreso for the art. I feel like I've always composed images, even before I had a camera. I like capturing and showing what I see in my head when I look at something.
There's also some entertainment value in it - funny subjects, clever titles, etc. Keeps me from getting bored.
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Art
UN_filler
2073 days ago
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Seems I've always composed the things I look at as a mental photo - and I've always had an appreciation for the beauty in all things, even the most mundane. Still working on translating what I see in my head to the camera but it sure is fun practicing.
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Art
Karol A
2073 days ago
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Document life
alicia954
2073 days ago
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I'm much more interested in taking pictures to remember moments, places, and people. I can't really get into all the concern over taking "good" or artistic photos either, and now that so much of the work in photography is NOT done by the camera-holder, I wouldn't want to claim that what I was doing is art. That's one of my philosophical dilemnas with photography...I am so removed from the artistic process...the fall leaves I capture are already there, the photo developing is done by someone else. I was merely "there" at the right time.
I like sifting through my photos and remembering what it felt like when I took the picture, what was going on, how it smelled, how I felt that day, etc.
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Art
UN_filler
2073 days ago
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Document life
kag3b
2073 days ago
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to remember where i have been and who i was with
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Art
UN_filler
2073 days ago
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The ART of Photography from the very start was an experiment, another medium to paint and brushes for the purposes of more clearly DOCUMENTING LIFE.
Photography has developed into three senses...it should Document a moment in time,
it should create ART, and it should Evoke a response (tell a story).
It is this Triangle that has shaped all life on the planet..and beyond.
Gerald Ray
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This is an interesting and difficult one...
I would call my personal work creative or craft rather than art, although I would probably dare to call some of my handprinted b&w stuff art, as I have done everything from loading the film into the cassette, through manual focusing and exposure, developing and hand printing. I feel a tremendous sense of ownership of these images. I love the feeling I get when I finally do up the back of a frame and turn it over to see a finished piece of work that I'm really proud of.
That said, I still do take a lot of snapshots - holidays and family events etc.
Most of the stuff I do at work is either technical or record work, so there's not a massive amount of space for artiness, although there is room to be conservatively creative for the staff magazine.
As an example, I had someone wanting 500(!) pictures of model cars in different positions along a bridge, shot side-on, and with no shadows and no perspective distortion... I managed it eventually, and they were happy with the results.
Of course, word got round that I was capable of shooting precisely, and I ended up shooting a similar number of trains. I have another set of cars booked in Monday morning.... 
(Tip:- don't ever work in a university, and particularly not for the Psychology dept) 
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Neutral
ben-s
2072 days ago
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Document life
jojobj
2071 days ago
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Absolutely to document life - if something turns out looking like art - I was just lucky. ;-)
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Art
UN_filler
2071 days ago
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Art
UN_filler
2071 days ago
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As a frustrated artist who cannot draw a straight line with a ruler, the camera serves as a crutch. Long before the advent of digital manipulation I spent endless hours in the dark room trying to tease my negatives into something presentable. Now with all the digital technology my frustration rises exponentially with each advance.
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benikesh
2071 days ago
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Art
UN_filler
2071 days ago
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I hate taking pictures of people I know! I feel like I remember more about a certain moment if I get an awesome shot of something- like a night sky, for example. I will remember who I was with and such much more than a simple, *say cheese* moment.
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Art
mezzoforno
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2071 days ago
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Document life
limeylover
1843 days ago
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I mostly take photographs to document where I've been and what I've done. I sometimes wish I could get over this obsession because it can drive you crazy when you sometimes have hundreds of photos to sort through (and it's hard for me to decide which ones to delete).
Every now and then I will see something that is too good to pass up for the occasional 'art' shot. I hope that while I'm documenting I am also creating art.
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UN_filler
1843 days ago
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no documentry. .....it is inner urge to paint for a painter so is to hold the camera and on earth thousands of things are beautiful. to capture them for posterity is the main criteria, whether it may be art or general shot. when u shoot, naturally, it becomes documentation????????
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UN_filler
1832 days ago
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I take photos for their pure artistic value but I have been known to document every now and then.
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Art
Christina
1832 days ago
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Art
UN_filler
1828 days ago
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either/or but lately art. for instance walking through the woods yesterday with my mom & brother i took like three pictures of them and about 500 of random trees & a tree fort we stumbled upon.
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Art
alyssarz
1828 days ago
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Document life
Jumprgirl1
1823 days ago
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I take pictures because if I don't... my boss won't pay me. Really though, I am a photojournalist so clearly I am documenting life, but when I'm not working it's more toward the artsy side.
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UN_filler
1823 days ago
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"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.) - Robert Rauschenberg, 1959"
Substitute "Photography" for "Painting" and Rauschenberg said it best.
When I take a photo I try to document life in an artful way...does it always work? Yeah, sure
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