Photography: don't call my monkey artist, dude

so much artist nowadays, so much smuggy creaters. give them enough rope, dude.. give it.

Don't want to compare photography with other forms of art Cause for correct comparing I need rather strong comparative tests base. And that sucks, that boring. may be some day, when i decide to get liberal education that will be my
degree work..but..

But now i want to talk about involvement of photographer in creation (not to prove, just to talk). Can you imagine that a monkey wrote a novell? Even if you give it a pen and being watching it for 10 years.. Well, then give that monkey a brush, then musical stuff... whatever you gave the monkey it couldn't create work of art. Surprising, ha?

But.. photographers prefer to see art tool in their cameras. Hey. Hey! give a monkey a camera! Can you imagine that it make some interesting photos? And can you imagine that some of those pictures mokey took for whole 10 years would be great? Well, I can :) Cause greatness of pictures doesn't depend on greatness of monkey in this case. It relay totally on greatness of the world around us. Though pictures are great I can not call that monkey artist. Cause she didn't do much here. Just continued pushing the button for 10 years (well, it reminds me some coders).

Well, I can't really say that photography is not an art.
Here is the bottom line. Every work if it done in some genius way is totally an art. Great mathematician like Lobachevskiy were true artist. Great physicist like Einstein were true artist either.. But most of physics, most of mathematician are not artist, even if they are rather cool scientists.

And here I suppose to decide are common painters, common designers, common musicians real artists? I'd rather say yes. Cause when you see some painting, that doesn't sucks (not every monkey that has taken a brush is genius), you see something that somebody created on a blanked area. Images has grown from his head, and his hand created a reflection... and when you see photo, you see only reflection(or some view if photographer was the skilled one) of something and to make this reflection was rather simple. Push the button...

PS I know, i know. there are a lot of ways to push that button, but 1 of 100 shots from 1 of 100 positions can be great whoever did this shots..

PSS Richard Avedon kicks ass!