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by jamesbritt
6122 days ago
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"What bothers me is not that he claims that what he has done is art --- it is. " Well, perhaps, but it's border-line kitsch. "What frightens me is that he claims photography is not art." Lots of people think that way. Often they prefer kitsch and schlock. Technical skill for it's own sake is pretty worthless. It's impressive, to a degree, but what matters is to what it is applied. It's the difference between being able to recite the whole of On Lisp from memory and being able to write innovative software. |
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Bah. I'm not making aesthetic judgments --- I don't care if it's good or not. I do care that he is willing to deny an entire medium the ability to change the way I think, feel, and sense the world.
We live in a time when people think that art is a frivolity; silly at best and a senseless waste at worst. That is not because people have become less intelligent or less capable of culture. It's because artists (a community I count myself within) are failing to communicate, to relate to the rest of humanity. Artists denying each other's work and medium of choice is a pretty vicious act of treachery against the mission of reminding the world that art is vital --- it is both a living field and a necessity of life.