Artists are the flagships of modern culture. By their actions, they try to expand its boundaries, asking important, unexpected, and sometimes painful and provocative questions in order to understand the world in which we live. Their actions are often not clear to anyone, but this does not mean that there is no point in them. Time has shown that many works were accepted by society and received recognition only years after their creation.
Photography today is no longer a tool for the elite, almost everyone uses it. And with the development of the network and messengers, it became the basis of communication between people. And if earlier photography was a tool with which you can tell stories, today it is inextricably linked with our existence. Therefore, today, more than ever, it is important to know what shaped our new language and how we use it.
Everything that can be learned about the theory of photography can be read. Although photography is something that can be seen, it is difficult to understand it just by looking, because vision also needs to be learned. The same can be said about contemporary art in general, the field of which photography belongs.
Many people confuse love of art with knowledge of all styles of painting, but, unfortunately, this is more like trying to learn an encyclopedia without trying to figure out the meaning of the things that are presented in it. Despite the fact that contemporary art, at first glance, is difficult to understand, there is one simple rule that will help make life easier: in order to successfully study art, you need to start to be interested in it.
