tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post1877106772641431217..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Let's Read This!amolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-73077447144942503032022-04-26T10:55:33.211-07:002022-04-26T10:55:33.211-07:00If I'd known that you live in a Blue house I&#...If I'd known that you live in a Blue house I'd have been more tactful in the past. Respectful apologies for any triggering remarks.<br /><br />Have you noticed, btw, that everybody without exception is increasingly old? It's a mystery. Doesn't mean they're allowed to identify as Old, though.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-61196187594561471762022-04-26T08:55:54.834-07:002022-04-26T08:55:54.834-07:00Right?!!
I am always very uncertain when we enter...Right?!!<br /><br />I am always very uncertain when we enter the land of specific Identities, in this sense. I suppose my photos are shaped by the fact that I am White, but also by the fact that I am mildly affluent, that I am increasingly old, that I have arthritis in my hands, and that I live in a blue house.<br /><br />Who's to say what factors actually show up in my photos?<br /><br />Obviously being White has a larger impact on my life than the color of my house, but my photos are not my life. Perhaps the house color looms weirdly and unexpectedly large in my photos. These are mysterious things.amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-50525548937681103212022-04-26T01:50:54.776-07:002022-04-26T01:50:54.776-07:00I always have a problem with such broad-brush &quo...I always have a problem with such broad-brush "identities": it's surely at the intersection of more fine-tuned identity characteristics that the interesting stuff happens. Things like place of origin, education, social class, and personality are surely just as formative as race, gender, or sexual orientation?<br /><br />You are a "white" American, sure, but so are Donald Trump (OK, bad example, he's an Orange) or Sarah Palin.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-6146017140736568462022-04-25T09:29:35.995-07:002022-04-25T09:29:35.995-07:00Based on a cursory examination of his website, Mr....Based on a cursory examination of his website, Mr. Jackson developed his chops in MFA land, and it shows, perhaps even moreso than his putative identity; all the usual structural and framing tropes of what he decries as "white" photography. It tends to vitiate his thesis on a personal level. <br /><br />I can't help but think if he hadn't chosen this path, with its instantly-recognizable conceptual silos, but had developed outside it, he likely would have had an easier time of centering on his identity -- and no easy way in (relatively speaking) to a career in photojournalism!<br /><br />Having said that, his work is the equal of white contemporaries as published in the usual outlets, and he deserves a shot -- as indeed his impressive resume demonstrates he's had, in the usual outlets. May this success continue!<br /><br />Here's an irreducible truth of this medium: it is extremely difficult to overcome its anodyne and homogenizing character, to produce personal work that may be recognized as such. I think this may be even harder within the constraints of photojournalism.David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/fugue-state.htmnoreply@blogger.com