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Is photography art?
Ryan Pennington
Early in my art education (read: junior year of college) I had an internal debate of sorts concerning photography as a medium. I wasn’t entirely convinced that photography was “art.” I saw fellow students drawing and painting what seemed like masterpieces to me. Each piece was proof of a single, creative endeavor, completely original. That was art.
I hadn’t ever taken an art class before I started the course work for my art major. I couldn’t draw. I definitely couldn’t paint (still can’t). All the people around me were CREATING, and there I was, camera and reproductions in hand. I was jealous.
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