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As a photographer (or rather aspiring,) I always wondered about the history of the art and how it came to be. This was a fantastic article and I learned a lot. It reminded me of another article I recently read that explored the relationship between a script and a film and if the written form of movie is actually a piece of literature. Photography to me is the script of the fine art world. There isn’t a lot of medium usage (at least since photography became digital) but to made a picture aesthetically pleasing there are a lot steps to take that are akin to making a brushstroke just right.

Fantastic article. . . I’m betting you procrastinated writing it though, huh ;). After reading through I realized that I would often use procrastination as a way of not getting distracted while writing essays in school simply because, due to waiting, I couldn’t waste time. This was a terrible use of my day, I now realize, and often ended with me becoming more stressed than proud of my work. Thanks for the tips!

Fantastic work. Your explanation of the differences between literature and film (including the examples) made this a very interesting article to read. I would have to counter with an argument that has a very large example. I recently read the script to Shawshank Redemption (being as it is my favorite movie and I would someday like to get into screenwriting) and found that it was a much better written piece of fiction than some of the books out there I’ve seen are on best seller lists. The only reason I bring this up is because it includes not just dialogue, but beautiful descriptions of the characters and surroundings. I would have to ask then, where do you place scripts such as these?