The aesthetics of a photo is one of self natural revelation.
A point of view succumbed in the rich history of the Plato's notion of the mimesis. A simple act of copying / replicating of what we see before us. What one tries to achieve is the visualization of, what is (sic), the here and now. A reproduction which can only be assessed by the photographer and not their audience.
It is this cold fusion that, unduly, sets a side photography from all other fields of the arts. Many, believe this is because of the infancy of our craft. But with a history tree reaching the bicentenary. It is far more a critical assumption, that as photographers we are stuck in a periodical notion coined over 2000 years ago.
To modernise Plato's notion "A copy of a copy..."
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