I read a post over at The Art Collector’s Blog and it made me think about that craft/art fine line lately too. I’m not exactly sure what the difference is, but I know that when I knit a hat, it’s craft and when I paint or draw it’s fine art. As an art teacher, I know it is a lot easier to teach craft because you give instructions and the students make it. When I teach art, it requires that the students make a lot of aesthetic decisions on their own. Maybe fine art is in the quality and freshness of the decisions made in the execution.

Photography to me is based on actively documenting observation so I categorize it in the fine art category.