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>>238607 There's a difference between a disagreement and being just plain wrong. Avedon did art, he made photographs intended to communicate/express/show things/concepts/people/experiences/etc/whatever with people. That's art. That's not a value judgment, it's fact.
Textbook, clichéd example: I hate Damien Hirst, have zero respect for him as an artist and only the most begrudging "well, he's human, too" respect for him as a person, but the unbelievably bad, pretentious, nihilistic, commercialized shit he turns out is art. Bad, pretentious, nihilistic, commercialized, shitty art.
"Bad, pretenting, nihilistic... shitty" are value judgments. Those people can disagree on. "Art" isn't, what Avedon and Adams did, no matter how much you dislike them, is art. What Damien Hirst does is, no matter how much I dislike it, art. It's an attempt to communicate something to other human beings through form. That's art.
Explain to me, why exactly is Avedon's non-commercial, non-fashion, etc. work not art?
>>238608 That's not an enormous reply.
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