On the Web: June 2005 Archives

"When you are a child and you begin to notice art, what you most admire is accuracy and what is "lifelike". Then clever grown-ups tell you that this is simplistic, that painting is expressive, impressionist, conceptual, allegorical, etc, not just a way of showing what things look like which has now been superseded by the invention of photography."

And people wonder why their camera-phone pictures are so cruddy.

If you can blearily read the light-gray text on a white background, check out the great interview with Jeff Wall over at Bridge magazine. I'm reading through Classic Essays on Photography and photographers rather than theorists write many of the essays from the first half of the collection. Wall seems to be in that vein, a photographer who thinks deeply and seriously about what he's doing. Still, in one instance he has to rein in his interviewer from heading off into inscrutable intellectual territory.

ArtNet has posted a review of the Photo-London photography fair held in late May. A quick scan of the site indicates it s was quite an action-packed event, much more "programmed" than the AIPAD show held here in NY each spring.