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Re: 20 best: Minimal Wave

990000 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:29:05 -0000

Really amazing compilation.

Re: .sasharappaport | An Icon of Sustainability

990000 — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:47:02 -0000

There are some awesome photos of this building on www.chuckchoi.com

Re: Eliot Shepard

990000 — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:43:34 -0000

"But outside my self-indulgent life as a Fine Art Photographer, I’ve been simultaneously working here and there for various print media, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and GQ. Over the years I’ve done stories on moms of marines serving in Iraq, religion in the American workplace, low-income teenage moms in the Louisiana bayou, and the biggest landfill in America. The most meaningful work I did in this vein was a four-part series for the Telegraph Magazine on the decline of the American empire. Working with the British journalist Mick Brown, I photographed small-town army recruits in West Virginia, the mortgage crisis in Stockton, California, and urban decay in Detroit."

http://www.artinfo.com/news...

In some cases, the back-story is the real concept and you can completely disregard the title. Anyway, who cares what the intent is if the photos already contain a wealth of information.

Re: Eliot Shepard

990000 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:50:30 -0000

Regarding the issue of artistic concepts:

What often goes undiscussed in the modern practice of art is the commissioning dynamic. A lot of questions regarding intent and concept can be directly attributed to the manner in which the work was commissioned. The whole idea of a creative work not having a concept is debatable anyway. Every work has a driving force or several forces that determine a good portion of what it becomes about, outside of the artist's apparent statement. Forget the artist's artistic/philosophical constructs for a moment, and think about all the other reasons artists do what they do: pay, prestige, popularity, power, politics (and other large socio/economic forces). I would even argue that a good portion of contemporary/post-modern work has been more about these reasons over personal self-expression (how else would it be possible to be a competitive world-class artist?). Every creative work has a reason for "being", of course, but perhaps we are being way too selective in the way in which we critique works of art.

When it comes to works with fuzzy or seemingly non-existent concepts, shouldn't artistic criticism acknowledge these unpopular topics every once in a while? Or is that totally unrealistic, given the nature of the art/creative industry?

Re: tumblray - awakinglim: 990000: Emotion circumplex model ...

990000 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:19:50 -0000

What do you mean it doesn't indicate which direction the emotion progresses? That's what this is all about. I think you're missing the point.