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The cultural role of images is decisive, just as words are. Images are directly related to the realm of mentalities, and their cultural and historical significance lies in the intentions, uses, and purposes that enable their production and trajectory. Every photograph results from a process of creation.

Boris Kossoy, in The Times of Photography
What is fine art photography? According to the Fine Arts Council of the University of Iowa (USA), fine arts are forms of artistic expression that emphasise aesthetic and conceptual qualities over practical application. As Clicio Barroso Filho explains, the five principal fine arts were traditionally painting, sculpture, architecture, music and poetry. Over time, this classification broadened to include other forms, such as theatre, dance, calligraphy, photography and printmaking. The fine arts encompass both two-dimensional works, including illustrations, paintings, drawings, mosaics, prints and photographs, and three-dimensional works such as sculpture. Other forms of artistic expression include dance, theatre and cinema.

Sources: Fine Arts Council, University of Iowa; Clicio Barroso Filho, ‘O que é Fotografia Fine Art?’, Fine Art Inside, no. 1, supplement to FHOX magazine, no. 162, 2013, pp. 6–7.

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I know no better definition of the word art than this: Art is man added to nature; to nature, to reality, to truth, but with meaning, with a conception, with a character that the artist emphasises, and to which he gives expression, rescues, distinguishes, liberates, illuminates.

Vincent van Gogh, in Letters to Theo, June 1879.
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