The New York Times upon the New Art of Flickr
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Virginia Heffernan – The Medium – Television – Internet Video – Media – Flickr – Photography – New York Times
The New York Times Magazine has an engaging essay which will run in this weekend’s paper upon the latest art represented by Flickr as well as online photography.
The essay contrasts the accepted renouned styles upon Flickr with the aged excellent art photography of the past. we was interviewed for the article.
Personally we hold which the single of the biggest things which Flickr represents is the latest democratization of excellent art photography.
For the past 100 years, most of what the universe considers excellent art photography has been bestowed upon us by the unequivocally tiny handful of successful gatekeepers. Literally, during any since time, substantially reduction than 100 people carry out 95% of what the universe is told to cruise excellent art. These have been the couple of vital notable relic curators, name art studio owners, as well as alternative influencers. These people not usually carry out the prices which excellent art photography will fetch, they utterly literally carry out what is deliberate the most appropriate excellent art in the universe today. They discuss it people what photography ought to be deemed great as well as what ought to be deemed amateurish.
With the appearance of the web most of this is changing. In the past though the team-work of the art chosen most photographers saw their work blur in to obscurity. Sure, they competence win the bronze plaque during the internal county satisfactory for their photograph, though unequivocally nobody would ever see it.
Today the web is permitting the latest multiply of photographer as artist. An artist which is increasingly means to bypass the excellent art chosen as well as foster their work but delay to the public. Although the excellent art prices have not nonetheless been trustworthy to today’s latest "Flickr Famous" photographer, this as well will come in time. Step the single is simply removing the exposure.
One of the stories which we conveyed to Virginia Heffernan, the contributor during the Times who wrote this article, was the story of the Cartier-Bresson sketch which the critique organisation of Flickr announced down as defective photography though meaningful it was an tangible Cartier-Bresson. While the single take divided from which story competence be which the ubiquitous Flickr village simply has bad ambience in art, an additional take divided competence be to subject the formerly unquestionable. Was Cartier-Bresson essentially which good? And would his work mount up currently as it has in the past?
Many in the excellent art as well as photography village would rught away tag me as heretical for suggesting the probability which Cartier-Bresson, regarded by most as the excellent photographer the world’s ever known, competence not be all which he’s done out to be.
And nonetheless Cartier-Bresson prints sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, whilst my Flickr important Pal Merkley sells his prints online himself for hundreds of dollars instead.
But the mainstream press is commencement to take notice of the latest trends in excellent art photography which have been commencement to take form upon Flickr. For the little of the photographers referred to in the NY Times essay this is the whoo-hoo moment. The NEY YORK F***ING TIMES!
But symbol my words. The naysayers will be here shortly. The excellent art universe has the lot to lose. Literally millions. But some-more significantly, control. Control over what is great excellent art as well as what is not. Right right away the a rich congregation which they suggest still hold in what they push. But as the selling of art by the gifted latest garland of artists as well as photographers sense their unequivocally same promotional techniques — it won’t be long.
And this is what the internet does best. Tears down aged ways of observant the universe as well as brings wholly latest ones.
Don’t get what I’m observant wrong. we do hold which the little of the photographers which the excellent art universe has historically bestowed as estimable have been unequivocally most in actuality worthy. But there have been most latest photographers which we hold have been each bit as worthy. And we consider which they as well will proceed to see the success which they similarly merit — even though an MFA, even though networking similar to ruin with the excellent art crowd, even though the right organisation shows or whatever which civ thing is which the excellent art sorts lend towards to obsess over, as well as even though being twenty-one as well as pleasing as well as only the right sort which only the right curator likes to nap with.
Worthwhile reading: Merkley’s treatise, "I’m Not the Photographer."
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