Fine Art Photography

Known also as "photographic art", "artistic photography," and so on, the term "fine art photography" has no universally agreed meaning or definition: rather, it refers to an imprecise category of photographs created in accordance with the creative vision of the cameraman. 

The basic idea behind the genre is that instead of merely capturing a realistic rendition of the subject, the photographer is aiming to produce a more personal - typically more evocative or atmospheric - impression. One might simplify this, by saying that fine art photography describes any image taken by a camera where the intention is aesthetic (that is, a photo whose value lies primarily in its beauty, rather than scientific (photos with scientific value), commercial (product photos), or journalistic (photos with news or illustrative value). 

Artistic photos have been used frequently in collage art (more correctly, photo collage), by artists like David Hockney (b.1937); and in photo montage, by Dadaists like Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971), Helmut Herzfelde (1891-1968) and Hanna Hoch (1889-1979), by Surrealist artists like Max Ernst (1891-1976), by the avant-garde Fluxus Group in the 1960s, and by Pop artists like Richard Hamilton.