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the shopping cart and the storm - 2009-09-16 19:04:18
| taken in Sidney BC this summer. yesterday i got a book out of the library titled WILLIAM EGGLESTON'S GUIDE. in it there is an essay on photography by John Szarkowski. he says, "Artists themselves tend to take absolutist and unhelpful positions when addressing themselves to questions of content, pretending with Degas that the work has nothing to do with ballet dancers, or pretending with James Agee that it has nothing to do with artifice. Both positions have the virtue of neatness, and allow the artist to answer unanswerable questions briefly and then get back to work. If an artist were to admit that he was uncertain as to what part of the content of his work answered to life and what part to art, and was perhaps even uncertain as to precisely where the boundary between them lay, we would probably consider him incompetent." i laughed. |
PENTAX K10D 1/500 sec f 8 Flash: Not Fired |