Archive for January, 2007
“While a painting or a prose description can never be other than a narrowly selective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as a narrowly selective transparency. But despite the presumption of veracity that gives all photographs authority, interest, seductiveness, the work that photographers do is no generic exception to the usually shady commerce between art [ READ MORE ]
note: this is a public-domain article that i’ve resurrected from a now-dead site via the wayback machine. you can view the cached version of the original site here. to make this article “come back,” though, i’ve reposted the text on my blog. enjoy. [ READ MORE ]