Amateur photos - amateur photos

Japanese: アマチュア写真 - あまちゅあしゃしん
Amateur photos - amateur photos

However, among the techniques seen in early artistic photography, for example, composite photography itself was later shed new light on modern art, such as photomontage and photocollage, which construct irrational but unified spaces, by G. Grosz, J. Heartfield, E. Lissitzky, and M. Ernst. The lineage of artistic photography as an "idealized image" or an "expression of beautiful things," typically women and landscapes, has been passed down to the present day, mainly by amateur photographers, but this is due to the nature of photography, which does not require technical mastery like painting, and anyone could acquire the basic techniques of photography in a relatively short period of time. Moreover, mastering photographic techniques and operating the equipment itself was by no means a dry subject, but was also an interesting subject.

From [Snapshot]

...It enabled the camera to freely capture not only so-called "artistic subjects," but any object on earth as a motif for photographic expression, and formed the basis for a form of artistic expression unique to photography that broke away from artistic photography, which had been established based on painting. Snapshots also made it possible to see the establishment of photographic expression in unbalanced compositions of amateur and documentary photographers, who had not been given much attention until then, and in photographs that were thought to be failures because they deviated from traditional painting perspective. In the heyday of graphic journalism, many snapshot masterpieces graced the pages of magazines such as Life, and today they have become a familiar and commonly used means of photography in our daily lives. ...

*Here are some explanations of terms that refer to "amateur photography."

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…だが,初期の芸術写真の中に見られたもののうち,たとえば合成写真という技法自体は,のちG.グロッス,J.ハートフィールド,あるいはE.リシツキー,M.エルンストなどの,フォトモンタージュやフォトコラージュという非合理だが統一的な空間を構築するという近代芸術の中で新しい光をあびるのであった。 〈理想化された映像〉,あるいは典型的には女や風景などの〈美しいものの表現〉としての芸術写真の系譜は,アマチュア写真家が中心になって引き継がれ現代にまで至るが,これは絵画芸術のような技術的習熟を必要としないという写真の性格によるもので,誰にでも,比較的短期間に写真のひと通りの技術は修得することができた。それに写真技術の修得や機器の操作それ自体が,けっして無味乾燥なものではなく,興味深い対象でもあった。…

【スナップ写真】より

…それはカメラが,いわゆる〈芸術的な主題〉ばかりではなく,この地上のあらゆる対象を自由に写真表現のモティーフとして獲得することを可能にし,絵画を範として成立していた芸術写真とは断絶した,写真独自の芸術的表現の基盤を形成することとなった。またスナップショットは,それまであまりかえりみられることのなかったアマチュア写真家,記録写真家たちのアンバランスな構成の写真や,伝統的な絵画の遠近法からはずれた失敗作と思われていた写真の中にも,写真らしい表現の成立をみることを可能にしたのであった。グラフ・ジャーナリズム全盛の時代に,《ライフ》などの誌面を飾った写真の中にもスナップ写真の傑作は数多いし,また,それは今日われわれの日常生活の写真撮影においても,一つの身近な常用手段となっている。…

※「アマチュア写真」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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