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   Street Photography   The Capture vs. The Pose    portrait of a WW2 vet...    by cweeks (https://www.deviantart.com/cweeks)  .techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic)  by techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) When a subject poses to have his or her photograph taken, the subject tries to project a message about himself or  herself by how he or she “poses”, by the attitude of his or her body language or facial expression. If the subject is posed by the photographer, the body pulled and prodded into the desired angles,  the facial expression “directed”, it is the photographer who is intending to communicate a message.  In either case, posing or posed, there is undeniably something

Duchamp finds a discarded urinal.  He alters it (by signing a name to it not even his own, but obviously “the artist’s”) and names it “The Fountain”. The most mundane, even off-putting, of objects is transformed by Duchamp into art. He submits it for exhibition and it is rejected.  You might say the judges “pissed on” his idea. But the idea was born and persisted. Duchamp insisted the object was art because he as an artist presented it as such. “Conceptual Art” was born.    .techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic)    by techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic)    Wed Dec 7, 2011, 7:59 PM Duchamp finds a