Vernacular Vs. Pictoral

Pictoral photography is artistic


Blessed Art Thou among Women, 1899 Gertrude Kasebier


Stieglitz and Emmy, 1907 Frank Eugene


Dance Study, ca. 1912 Adolph de Meyer

(all photos from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pict/hd_pict.htm#slideshow1)

Vernacular is anything BUT artistic:

Anonymous, “Man in Noose” (date unknown) from the collection of Marc Boone Fitzerman.

Anonymous, “Kids on Porch” (date unknown) from the collection of Marc Boone Fitzerman.



Anonymous, “Farm Gathering” (date unknown), from the collection of Marc Boone Fitzerman.