landscape-appreciation : Message: In reply to Tittivulus

In his last two Posts, Tittivulus raises a number of pertinent questions. I’d like to address this one of his:

“Who are the ‘landscape appreciaters’? Where are they? “

In my opinion there is, within the public of those interested in landscapes, several groups of persons that may be qualified as landscape appreciators. I intend to bring up some of these for consideration, starting in this Post, with ‘landscape photographers’.

I don’t consider myself part of the group of serious landscape photographers, I’m just a clumsy amateur, but I assume that this is roughly the way it works:

On encountering a certain landscape, a photographer may pay it detailed attention. As a result she/he might go through the kind of ‘aesthetic experience’ that P. Haezrahi discusses in her book. Subsequently, he’d pause to consider the merits or value of slabs of that scenery in terms of ‘framed segments’. At this stage she’d exercise cognition, understanding, judgment, acquired taste, discernment, discrimination and others of the numerous ingredients that conform Appreciation and hence he'd qualify as landscape appreciator.

The above process may look long in writing, but for the experienced photographer, may take just an instant. This because he’d have developed percipience (Skill in perceiving, discriminating, or judging) which, according to Osborne in one of the books in the list of “What to Read”, is fundamental to appreciation.

Two cautionary notes:

a)Whether the process roughly outlined above holds as well for a landscape painter is debatable and better left for separate consideration.

b) One should not confuse the attitudes involved in the selection of a landscape for subjects of photography which, IMO, entail landscape appreciation with those involved in the appreciation of a landscape photo which are akin to the appreciation of artworks.

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