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To make a stock photo is one thing, and requires its own set of skills. To place Victoria in a context with scenery, in rooms with other people etc, and deliver a statement -that is something else, it is called "Art".

 

read the original post, and go to those galleries.  each of those artists does plain portrait pictures.  if there's a scene, it's basically a backdrop, not something the main figure is interacting with.  i don't believe i've ever seen an RGUS image with a background.  i'm not going to define art one way or another, and i'd never say a fashion photographer wasn't an artist.  and if you look at most fashion photos, imho, there isn't a scene, other people, or a statement (usually, it's more of an attitude)  and most of the artists mentioned in the original do what i would call fashion renders, even if the fashion is SF or fantasy.