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Anonymous
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i am, unfortunately, calling shenanigans on:
>Most great photographers I can think of had no formal or professional training
Before 1960, I could agree with this. Thing was, there were no photo schools back when Ansel Adams was a boy. All the early 20th century greats were the ones who went on to found photo programs as we know them today.
After the 1960's and the rise of the state college, a degree in fine art photography became more or less the de facto standard if you wanted to have a successful artistic career.
Today, it's pretty damn difficult to become a commercial photographer, a photojournalist, or a gallery-exhibited fine artist without a BFA to go along with it. There are notable exceptions, but they are exceptional people. The rest of us people pods stuck firmly in the middle of the bell curve need to go to college and study hard if we want to become raging success stories.
Seriously, look up some big artists. 8 times out of 10, a famous or successful contemporary photographer will have gone to college for it.
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