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30 November 2009 @ 10:28 am
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IN DEFENSE OF CONCEPTS by Ben Davis
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All art is conceptual if by that you mean that actually having a rewarding encounter with it implies something beyond just the brute facts before your eyes.
But my sense is that the average non-specialist visitor walking through the Met’s Greek and Roman Galleries appreciates the works there as precisely that: "historical curiosities." They spend about 10 seconds on masterpieces that have had whole books written about them, take a picture, move on.
Today’s culture, however, is characterized by the massive alienation of people from the actual processes that produce almost all the goods that make up their everyday life-world, from food to clothing to entertainment. So of course this implies entirely new modes of esthetic appreciation, and gives new shades of meaning to craft when it is employed.
It might be worthwhile to establish a criticism that revived the sense of how challenging and thought-provoking idea-based work can be, rather than being blasé about it.
Because "conceptual art" is idea-driven, it is dismissed as a whole as being based on cliquishness and hype.
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29 October 2009 @ 08:43 am
Из "After Photography " by Fred Ritchin :
Photography, rather than reacting to apocalypse, can now try to help us avoid it. Robert Capa’s “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough” becomes its opposite; the most distanced imagery, of events that have not yet happened, might be, in some cases, the best kind.
The fact that photographs can be evaluated not only by the photographers, editors or readers but also by their subjects changes the power balance enormously.
Swiss-born photo-grapher Robert Frank’s now classic 1950s essay The Americans, initially detested by almost every domestic critic, brought out issues of race and class that had barely been exposed before. If done today, it might have been turned into a highly contested web-based “family album,” a referendum on what the United States has become.
The problem would be to figure out a way to add substantive comments without so many of the meaningless comments — “nice picture,” “sexy smile” — that one finds today on many of the user-generated sites.
In other ways, the instantaneous photography allowed by camera phones is becoming a form of self-defense for civilians in all kinds of situations, even as a strategy against exhibitionism.
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Thomas Ruff
I always want to take the medium of photography into the picture, so that you are always aware that you are looking at an image – a photograph, so, in the picture I hope you can see two things: the image itself, plus the reflection – or the thinking – about photography
Since photography is such a realistic medium, it pretends that everything you're looking at was in front of the camera. But in the meantime it wasn't.