Artist or Photographer?

P.D. admired an "abstract" photo. "It could be used as evidence that would support Joe's claim that you're more of an 'artist' than a 'photographer'."

Thanks mucho for critique. I almost said "for your support," since all these photos got pretty much a goose egg when exposed to the fickle (I first typed "fuckle") public. Silly distinction between artist and photographer, of course. When the ever-worshipful Edward Weston was accorded a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in the 30's, quite a breakthrough for photography at the time, the original title the museum chose was "Edward Weston: Artist." Weston was wroth. He insisted, successfully, that they change it to "Edward Weston: Photographer."

And indeed one of the saving graces of photography has been that Anybody Can Do It. Keeping it demotic has saved it from being sequestered in a pimple labeled "Fine Art." Nobody can resist squeezing a pimple, and who can resist making fun of, and finally coming to despise, officially certified Art? The whole point of most modern movements, like Impressionism and Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism and Dada and the Bauhaus, not to mention comic strips and film and popular song and of course photography, was to pop that pimple.