也有很不同的意见，比如Paul Graham 在2010 MoMA Forum

www.paulgrahamarchive.com/writings_by.html

他先那俺很喜欢的 Jeff Wall 开刷, 然后：

" there remains a sizeable part of the art world that simply does not get photography. They get artists who use photography to illustrate their ideas, installations, performances and concepts, who 'deploy' the medium as one of a range of artistic strategies to complete their work.  But photography for and of itself -photographs taken from the world as it is– are misunderstood as a collection of random observations and lucky moments, or muddled up with photojournalism, or tarred with a semi-derogatory ‘documentary’ tag“

“The problem is that whilst you can discuss what Jeff Wall did in an elaborately staged street tableaux, how do you explain what Garry Winogrand did on a real New York street when he ‘just’ took the picture? Or for that matter what Stephen Shore created with his deadpan image of a crossroads in El Paso?  Anyone with an ounce of sensitivity knows they did something there, and something utterly remarkable at that, but... what?  How do we articulate this uniquely photographic creative act, and express what it amounts to in terms such that the art world, highly attuned to synthetic creation -the making of something by the artist- can appreciate serious photography that engages with the world as it is?”



还有网页下半部是他2009在 Gregory Crewdson 的母校 Yale MFA 摄影毕业班典礼上很有意思的祝词。。。

所有跟帖： 

• 我觉得(某些)扫街没有agenda，所以不算documentary，算art，哈哈哈 -lilywxc- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/30/2013 postreply 22:18:21

• 40's Model, Levitt, 后来的 Leiter, Klein -虫庆通勤- ♂ (789 bytes) () 05/30/2013 postreply 22:54:32

• 有psychological aesthetic motif -lilywxc- ♀ (190 bytes) () 05/31/2013 postreply 07:00:19