Photography is inherently two-dimensional -- the "flat canvas" as noted in the original article we're talking about. To some extent you can attempt to affect the perspective by using oddball lenses -- the Leitz 35mm PA Curtagon parallax correcting lens comes to mind -- or manipulation of the negative, but a good painter can achieve effects that the lens cannot. Take a look at Harvey Dunn's painting of the AEF machine gunner up above. He's used what is called "heroic perspective" to give the man a tremendous presence and solidity - the camera can't do that.
And my beloved spouse is an excellent photographer, both 35mm and large format, so I'm fairly familiar with the art, having washed more than my share of negatives and prints!
Here it is. Harvey Dunn is one of my all time favorite painters: American Machine Gunner
Go have a dekko at the other thread. Nice stuff there from a lot of posters.
You can do that these days with the manipulation available with a computer -
My youngest does this all the time. His senior year in highschool was quite happy when he discovered that the football player's girlfriends were immensely appreciative of his "enhanced portraits". So were the football players!
Photography and portraiture are not remotely the same thing. A photo can be made of someone in motion. An artist can make a picture seem to be in motion. These are far, far different things.
