Goals of Photogrammar Project:
- Enhancing discovery of both well-known and overlooked images,
- Providing richer historical context through multiple views and classification systems.
- Supporting scholarship, teaching, and public engagement.
- Fostering exploration through generous, visually integrated interfaces.
Goals of Review on Fine-Art Photography:
- Establish fine-art photography as an art form equal in value to painting, sculpture, and other traditional arts.
- Differentiate fine-art photography from representational forms like photojournalism and commercial photography.
- Highlight its purpose: to express the photographer’s vision, convey ideas, messages, or emotions, and evoke personal or universal feelings.
- Show photography’s historical and cultural impact, comparing its influence to that of the printing press in reshaping art and society.
Relationship to Digital Humanities:
- The goals of the Photogrammar Project and the Review on Fine-Art Photography overlap in their focus on photography’s cultural and historical value, but they approach it differently. Photogrammar emphasizes digital humanities practices—enhancing discovery, providing layered historical context, and supporting scholarship and public engagement through digital interfaces. In contrast, the fine-art photography review seeks to legitimize photography as an art form, highlighting its expressive and cultural power. While Photogrammar uses digital tools to broaden access and interpretation, the fine-art review defends photography’s artistic status; together, they demonstrate how photography can be both a subject of digital humanities inquiry and a creative medium shaping cultural meaning.


