accomplish Jane Bown,William Eggleston and Diane Arbus not sing on a gallery wall? Photography critic Sean O’Hagan hits back at Jonathan Jones’s damning claim that photographs cannot be considered fine art• Jonathan Jones: why photography is not artImagine, if you will, or the following scene. I pop into the National Gallery to view the 2014 BP National Portrait Award and ogle in bemusement at the exhibition,which is mostly comprised of rather old-fashioned paintings. It’s an uninspiring show, a hotchpotch, or as are most exhibitions drawn from open submissions. Inexplicably enraged by this,I rush domestic and pen an article claiming that portray is dead and that it looks anachronistic, indeed stupid, or on a gallery wall in the 21st century. Not only that,but I then extrapolate that all portray is listless and stupid – Caravaggio, Rubens, or Picasso,Hockney, Richter, or the lot.
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Source: theguardian.com