POTD: Better Days
Mildred Blackwood Louisville, Kentucky 2012
Mildred and Wallace Blackwood near Roosevelt, Oklahoma 2000
Mildred Blackwood and Cleo Blackwood (sister-in-law) Evergreen, Colorado late 1960s
]]>Mildred Blackwood Louisville, Kentucky 2012
Mildred and Wallace Blackwood near Roosevelt, Oklahoma 2000
Mildred Blackwood and Cleo Blackwood (sister-in-law) Evergreen, Colorado late 1960s
]]>There’s a lot of really bad art-speak out there and I usually just ignore it, not wanting to make light of someone’s serious effort to, well, sound serious. But it’s 3:00 a.m. and I can’t sleep and it’s put me in an ornery mood so I’m posting this description of an upcoming photography exhibit at a well-known venue that will remain nameless. I’ve also changed the name of the photographer because I don’t want to denigrate any specific person, just this strange genre of writing that is far too common. Otherwise though, it is a direct quote:
Most of this come across as nonsense to me, a randomly arranged sequence of buzz words and catch phrases tenuously strung together with questionable grammar. Here’s the sum total of what I learned from reading this exhibit description: this photographer takes photos. If you are more versed in art-speak than I am, perhaps you can provide a more detailed translation into common English.
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