Theory: March 2007 Archives

From the review of Alan Trachtenberg's Lincoln's Smile, in the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Photographs, Trachtenberg writes, elegantly and eloquently, are "not so much a guide to reality as a uniquely modern means of questioning reality." They are locked in an eternal present, where something is always about to happen. Appearing at the intersection of image and speech, photographs present the paradox of "things appearing while disappearing, apprehended just in time, in time" - to "expire into new life."

(via Photo Kaboom)

I feel bemused at why a nascent art photographer would be so openly conservative as to adhere to apparent conventions, and at my most pessimistic, I wonder if there's too much "trying-to-be-like" Eggleston, Shore, et al., and too little "creative-departure-from" the stellar standards that they have set.

From "The New Color: The Return of Black and White" by Charlotte Cotton

There is a lightly participated, but interesting forum attached to this article, as well.