In each case, the photographer wants to show some idea or concept that he wants to convey to the viewer. Here we see the delight of the model in the photo, where the whole world is in front of her, as if in flight. She, like a bird, wants to fly up to the sky with joy and beauty.
Also, a conceptual photo can be shown to the viewer by adding a little creativity to make the work more attractive. A photographer in this genre of photography should be in constant search, applying the concept and even in the portrait. Then the idea itself becomes obvious.
You can also mix different genres at the heart of the idea itself, so that a whole philosophical layer was born, in which we immediately see - a summer landscape with a river, a portrait, where unity and friendship, and an animal (dog), which is always with a person.
For the development of creativity in photography, as in art, conceptual photography plays a decisive, and sometimes the only big role, to show the creation of an idea using the example of some work. In this case, we see nature, the forest and the dog from an unusual perspective for us.
The use of some other techniques in the work of the photographer is also applicable to make the conceptual photography more attractive to the viewer. These can be photographs where people build the composition together in some additional objects. Here in the photo is an airplane.
Of course, for conceptual photography, a person plays an important role, who conveys the very idea of photography to the viewer. And any photo becomes attractive to the viewer if there are some vivid subjects in it. Then you involuntarily immediately turn your attention to the photograph.
CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY, WHAT IS IT REALLY?
Conceptual photography, what is it really? And how can you understand this genre of photography? The very idea of conceptual art was proposed back in the 1960s by artists, and then quickly moved into the photography genre. So what is it and how to understand the principle itself or the basis of a new direction in art! It's simple. It is in the idea itself that the very concept is seen, which is the most important aspect of the work, as an example - the photographer. Here the idea becomes the technique that creates photography, like art. But what I disagree with is when they say that mastery is secondary. Why? For me, this is precisely the skill that is the basis of conceptual photography, which then conveys the idea that the photographer, as the author of the work, wanted to convey to people. And when they say that the basis of mastery is not so important, then this is a completely different genre of art, such as abstraction, surrealism or even primitivism.
We must immediately understand that conceptual photography is photography that enables the photographer to convey his idea to the viewer. But the viewer himself must evaluate his concept - whether it corresponds to the topic that the photographer wanted to tell about in his creative work. Any photographer must have a direct interaction with the viewer. And then how can you understand what the same artists said that the mastery of performance is secondary. This is because conceptual photography is different from other works of art, such as paintings by artists. This is the original genre of photography, where the main role is played by the general idea of the photo, its concept, although expressed by technique, means, as tools for achieving the idea. In this case, photography should have a certain philosophical approach, which will provide the basis for the unification of the photographer's own view, as a master of those things that he wanted to show the viewer through his idea.
Conceptual photography is, first of all, the work of a photographer, where he communicates to the viewer (and to himself) what he himself wants to understand, through his work and the concept he proposed for understanding art. And here, even then, it doesn't matter which direction was chosen for photography - a mixed technique of abstraction with reality or a classic version of photography in order to show the beauty of one's thought, as a philosophical acceptance of the world in which both the photographer and the viewer live. Therefore, we can say that conceptual photography is a story in miniature, which the photographer, as an author, wants to tell the audience through photography, based on his idea and vision of the world as he sees it. And this, of course, is a very complex genre of photography, so that the concept can be understood by those viewers for whom the photography was made at the level of art. And the topics can be different - these are all of us living in society. And also - our children, nature, people, science, religion. And in addition - travel, sports, art and even politics.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
-original photo;
-secondary publication;
-camera Sony 16.2.
(Translated via Google translator from Russian)
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Photo taken - Sony 16.2 - 3x Zoom, Vario-Tessar lens.