Last Week's Tweet chat we discussed photography by starting with a comment left on Amy Stein's Facebook status by New York Art Critic Jerry Saltz:
I do not think that the word "emerging" is the problem; it merely denotes a phase of one's exhibiting career. I think that the lurking problematic term is, ah, "photographer!"Photography is clearly going through simultaneous death-throes, transformation, rebirth, and other out-of-medium experinces.
That is what you should be thinking about. That's where the real THRILL will be.
This past week he dropped that comment into his own Facebook page and began a flood of over 300 comments. After his reposting Saltz also posed this question
Let's learn. Define the word "Postmodernism" (in art ONLY). Your definition CANNOT BE MORE THAN 2 or 3 SIMPLE sentences.
I responded:
Postmodernism in photography is photography that is meta aware. That is aware of its histories, truths, construction and realities and then communicates through that awareness.
In addition to the artist I mentioned last week I want to add a show I saw this past week "Lunch Break" by Sharon Lockhart at Gladstone Gallery.
Outside AB Tool Crib: Matt, Mike, Carey, Steven, John, Mel and Karl, 2008 Chromogenic print; 49 x 68 1/2 inches (124.7 x 174.2 cm) framed
That's where we will begin again for tonight using that quote as a starting point for our weekly photo art chat.
- where is art photography NOW? dead/alive/rebirth?
- what is transforming, rebirthing into
- how do the practices of documentary live along side the conceptual, constructed, abstract and appropriation?
- art art photographer's artists or art artist art photographers? does it even matter?
Join in tonight at 9 pm EST.
These Art Photography Twitter Chats anyone can join in or just read it live by using the hashtag #photoartchat on Twitter. One easier way to transform twitter into a chat room is Tweetchat.com and entering the photoartchat room here: http://tweetchat.com/room/photoartchat.
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