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Dualities #8 Bozeman, Montana 2003, 2014
I took the photo on the right last week, the photo on the left eleven years ago. There’s a similarity of course, but I’m still surprised this tree reminded me immediately of a photo from over a decade ago that I don’t even have a print of hanging around anywhere.
In regard to the earlier photo, although I wasn’t crazy about finding a wet dog on the bed, I let her stay there and not just because I wanted to get this photograph. Favored dogs have a way of getting special treatment sometimes.
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Guardian writer Jonathan Jones to stir up that controversy yet again. Jones says “Peter Lik’s hollow, cliched and tasteless black and white shot of an Arizona canyon isn’t art – and proves that photography never will be.” (See the full article here.) Given there does not seem to be a generally accepted working definition of what is art and what is not, it seems pointless to argue whether or not a specific piece of work is art or not. Ignoring that niggling logical issue, I will just say that as long as a small canvas can be painted one single shade of white with no texture (think large paint chip) can hang as a valuable contribution to the art world in an institution as august as the Tate Modern in London, then pretty much anything you want to call art is in fact art. Jonathan Jones article adds nothing to the debate on whether or not photography is art. In fact he spends most of his time not even addressing the issue, instead explaining in detail why he doesn’t like the image. Since when does a particular person’s tastes have anything to do with whether or not something is art? Perhaps that old saying “I don’t know much about art but I know what I like” applies here. Or better yet, how about “I can’t define art but I know it when I see it.” (In case you’re wondering, except for the price I’m not particularly impressed with Lik’s image. But that wasn’t my point here.) ]]>
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