My simplistic way of looking at this: fine art photos are taken primarily to represent a more abstract quality or characteristic of the subject--beauty, symmetry, form, tone, use the image as inspiration. This distinguishes them from advertising, portraiture, fashion, architecture, and other variants of commercial photography, where the concreteness of the subject itself is what you hope to depict. (words rarely fail me but they do so here.)

one can take a fine-art nude image, for instance and define this image as a picture in time but the representation is not the primary goal for a fine-art image.

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