A fairly large segment of photography has become solely focused on the production of visual cliches. This development concerns all types of photography, however different they might appear at first (whether visually or functionally).
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Sander de Wilde's curator insight,
September 18, 2015 3:18 AM
Exactly what I feel all the time. It's already damned difficult to find all these grants, and competitions, find the time to enter, and now you also have to find the money to enter. Even known sites like lensculture etc. Only photographers with time and money can make an entry and win. Is that fair? I don't know a lot of photographers with any of these!-)
Brice Fauche's curator insight,
July 31, 2015 8:22 AM
"Technology has so democratized image-making that it has put the artistic power once mainly associated with aristocrats—to stylize your image and project yourself to an audience as desirable—into everyone's hands."
Damon R Murgatroyd's curator insight,
February 7, 2016 5:10 PM
Let’s be clear: there is no such thing as cultural appropriation. Why? Because ‘culture’ itself is the product of appropriation from the very start. Every aspect of culture comes from elsewhere. ‘Your’ culture isn’t yours, it is the culture of your ancestors and your peers. |
Jon C's curator insight,
August 20, 2015 8:19 PM
Some fascinating historical photographs from 1960's England. The colours are muted but realistic.
Jacques Clayssen's curator insight,
August 9, 2015 3:50 AM
"Reality, as I witness it on the street, is a humbling thing. Maybe that is why artists escape into the realm of “subjectivity”? Photographers seem to escape it with the reductive “objectivity.” I would like to give each its measure: the process of finding the proper proportion continues still."
Nathalie St Photos's curator insight,
July 30, 2015 3:29 AM
More I discover this photographer, more I like it! |
"Per se, there is nothing wrong with cliche photography. Considerations of such photography must include the context it is embedded in. Someone looking at a pornographic image for the sake of sexual gratification is unlikely to be bothered by the cliches thus encountered — much like someone looking at a friend’s photograph of her or his young baby is unlikely to point out any problems (unless, of course, there is a severe lack of the kinds of basic social skills that enable societies to function)."