Comprar Rimonabant, "The reason I enjoy photography so much is because of the ways it is similar to skateboarding. The beauty of skateboarding is that it is about virtuosity. Everyone who skateboards is essentially riding the same thing, so the progression of the sport is about what you can do on that thing, kopen goedkope Rimonabant, how you look doing it, and how you decided to do it, Billige Rimonabant Apotheke, but you can’t step off of your board. Because of their loyalty to the sport, skateboarders must progress slowly, feed off of one another, παραγγείλετε online Rimonabant, and take cues from their peers. That is beautiful to me, Ordering Rimonabant, that competitive aspect is beautiful.
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-Josh Poehlein writing on Why Photography is Like Skateboarding
I had a conversation recently with a close friend relating to the current state of photography. Ordering Rimonabant online cheap, This friend (who is as art obsessed as any person I know but doesn't really consider himself to be an artist so to speak) was explaining that he had been spending a considerable amount of time looking at contemporary photographic work online and found much of what he saw quite unimpressive and repetitive. Comprar Rimonabant, The work he seemed to like the best showed the hand of the artist in the making more obviously. He was talking about what he considered to be more creative work, which I understood to mean photographic work not based in some sort of realistic depiction.
I mentioned the Paul Graham discussion I attended a while ago and what Graham had to say regarding the staged photograph and why it's so fashionable today, District of Columbia DC D.C. . I mostly agree with Graham on his point but what he says doesn't exactly explain why so many artists are making set-up work, it only explains why the work is so popular with viewers, Comprar en línea Rimonabant, collectors, gallerists, dealers and museums.
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I brought up the idea that photography can often seem like a dead end with so many photographers searching for that interesting or exotic portrait subject or that unique location or poetic thin red line to explore. I've also often come away from many contemporary photographic books or exhibitions with the thought that the medium lends itself too easily to gimmickry (I would include my own work in that assessment). Halvalla Rimonabant apteekki, In the end we agreed that most photography is and has always been about some sort of access. Of course it's also very much about making the choice, not just to try to access a particular situation, but also to actually explore a specific subject, buy Rimonabant no rx. Comprar Rimonabant, It seems that today more than ever, that choice of what to photograph is more important than how one photographs it, that if you show a subject that hasn't been seen or explored before, people will be quickly interested. Yes it helps when that subject is explored in some unique way, but it doesn't always seem necessary. Osta alennus Rimonabant, This is where the quote above about skateboarding comes in as it offers a different understanding of contemporary photographic practice and the idea that we can only perfect and re-create in a new way what has already been done before. In the grand scheme of things photography is a very young medium but I really wonder where it can go in the next 100 years.
We all know that painting as a medium was declared dead many years ago but just a quick glance around proves that painting is not dead yet.
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Lately, Køb billige Rimonabant, I've been excited by some photographers who seem to have found a natural way out of the medium. That's not to say that they give up on making photographs. Alaska AK , On the contrary, they continue to make photographic work but they are also beginning to engage in other art making practices. The freedom to begin exploring visual ideas through other mediums seems to lead to a re-freshed perspective when it comes back to photography.
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I'm thinking about Brian Ulrich's recent foray into sculpture and installation with his rescued neon signs which have been lovingly brought back to life albeit in a completely new re-contextualized setting. Even though the signs are very much sculptures, Massachusetts MA Mass. , there is still something very photographic in their existence on the wall as objects.
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At the end of writing all this, Buy generic Rimonabant, I asked my friend to comment further on his feelings about photography, below is what he wrote back to me.
Keep in mind that this is only one opinion:
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Ofer are you referring to Travels with Maggie? Because if that’s gimmicky then you could say the same of virtually all conceptual art. I think work is not gimmicky when we recognize something mysterious and undigestible in it. I couldn’t care less how the photographer got there. And I think you definitely got there with your project.
I can name others but I’m sure you know what I mean. When work is really good, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson it “takes the top of your head off”; when it’s bad it seems gimmicky. Sometimes there is only a sliver of difference.
Personally, I find Wall’s building a nightclub for 9 months in his studio to be more “gimmicky” than going to shoot an actual nightclub…the effort overshadows the visual result. Not so with Crewdson – perhaps because it’s done on location.
Another example of the effort (and focus on it) overshadowing the piece:
http://www.sightunseen.com/ten-to-one-by-sylvie-zijlmans-hewald-jongenelis/
I’ve never understood that interest in the set-up image (perhaps because as a photographer I get what the magic is of the documentary?) though I set shots up myself only because the technology isn’t there yet to freeze motion adequately with ambient at night. Perhaps as technology continues to evolve it will produce more unique or never before seen photography?
I was interested in what you said about access, as I some time ago tried to come up with the competitive advantages of art photography and came up with (sparing you too much elaboration):
1. Access (Taryn Simon, Candida Hoffer)
2. Money ($40k Hassleblads or the ability to go cover the Tour de France for 3 months)
3. Technical know-how (Gursky, Chuck Close’s Daguerrotypes)
4. Creativity (Innate or gained through practice)
5. Personality/Networking (It’s tough living in Boise, or LA for that matter)
6. Bullsh*tting ability (Let’s be honest)
I’ve got a draft of a post on the matter that one day might make it onto the blog. I’d be curious to hear what people think and if they have any to add. Or maybe I’m just thinking too much with my MBA here.
I’m glad you’re intrigued by my photography, but fyi the only thing I smoke are cigarettes and just because something looks different doesn’t mean it’s drug induced or related, though I do skateboard. I also spend a lot of time at the MET looking at neoclassical painting and most recently high renaissance work. It seems like a lot of people get worked up about photography and the art world status quo, like your friend, but if people are concerned with where art-photography is at now and where it’s going, you have to look a little more than a century back.
This was a great post to come home to. I spent the entire afternoon photographing as well as skateboarding today. The two have always complimented each other in how they’ve allowed me to view and appreciate the everyday world differently. Skateboarders can find beauty and inspiration in a simple curb, a set of stairs, a railing, or a slight embankment because it would be perfect to skate on. Once I started to skateboard as a pre-teen everything changed for me. We’d drive around looking for these skate spots, places nobody but a skateboarder would notice. It was definitely an influence for when I began to photograph seriously and the subject matter I typically choose to shoot. And the best skateboarding being done right now is a beautiful mix of the past and present, as with photography.
I’m completely interested on how these threads meet. Also recently Amy Stein had a facebook post that spawned a big conversation. the most interesting comment came from New York Mag Art Critic Jerry Saltz:
“I do not think that the word “emerging” is the problem; it merely denotes a phase of one’s exhibiting career. I think that the lurking problematic term is, ah, “photographer!”
Photography is clearly going through simultaneous death-throes, transformation, rebirth, and other out-of-medium experinces.
That is what you should be thinking about. That’s where the real THRILL will be.”
So, tonight for our weekly photo art twitter chat are using this as a jumping off point to discuss the future of photography as art.
for more info on this week’s chat: http://www.harlanerskine.com/blog/2010/01/tonight-tuesdays-photo-art-tweetchat-s.html
Well, the last time I tried to post a note, I screwed up twice and gave up. So, here goes again, Nice Site. I wish you would do mine!
This is a great quote. I am THE worst offender of typing up half of the page. No matter what, it always runs away from two.
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