I would like to Know what is the meaning of classical photography and if you have any email address of expert people would be happy

-- P.Madhavan (gandhimadhav@yahoo.com), January 08, 2001

Answers

I'm not sure where you heard that term and the context in which it was used is important, but my opinion is that "classical photography" is any photographic image in which you can recognize the subject of the photograph as existing somewhere in the world of reality.

-- Todd Frederick (fredrick@hotcity.com), January 10, 2001.

that would be "straight" photography. Wouldn't "classic" be from a formative period, exhibiting enduring characteristics evident in the ensuing genres of the discipline?... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), January 15, 2001.

work that exhibited those same characteristics, but is from a more recent era, would be in a "classic" style.

Garry Winograd was a practitioner of "straight" photography, and a "classic" Street photographer. Ansel Adams is a "classic" Landscape photographer, but a little too manipulative for me to think of as a "straight" photographer. I'm sure he would disagree. William Henry Jackson is/was a classic Landscape photographer, Bresson a classic Street photographer and both very straight. Weston (Ed): classic Still Life and Figurative, straight? dunno... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), January 16, 2001.