tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post3975170013332952837..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Day Sleeper Sam Contis, a few Notesamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-29581742822158175552021-05-27T04:16:20.074-07:002021-05-27T04:16:20.074-07:00I was wondering how this could work: seance? ouija...I was wondering how this could work: seance? ouija?David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/rough.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-69850981694967977712021-05-26T09:50:31.372-07:002021-05-26T09:50:31.372-07:00He doesn't seem to know what the word "co...He doesn't seem to know what the word "collaboration" means. The idea that we ought to have MORE dumpster-diving is, obviously, terrible.amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-73351896462723958772021-05-26T09:06:33.203-07:002021-05-26T09:06:33.203-07:00Here we go again ...
"here we have a collabo...<a href="https://cphmag.com/the-shabbiness-of-beauty/" rel="nofollow">Here we go again</a> ...<br /><br />"here we have a collaboration of sorts between two unique artists, one living, one dead."David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/rough.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-63774989223539951022020-02-20T00:18:16.836-08:002020-02-20T00:18:16.836-08:00Alright, now I am waiting for Garry Winogrand'...Alright, now I am waiting for Garry Winogrand's most offensive photographs, as perceived in 2020. Or an even more conceptual series, 'The Place Where Something Might Have Happened', made of photos by Weegee, but where he arrived too late. Fortunately he wasn't late very often. I'm wondering as well when Artificial Intelligence algorithms will be good enough to recognize Zeitgeist and generate this type of work. AI might even colorize them!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-25361515156780055152020-02-19T06:18:41.145-08:002020-02-19T06:18:41.145-08:00For me this is the photographic eqivalent of revis...For me this is the photographic eqivalent of revisionist history.<br />It is taking the original events, facts and archival sources and interpreting them within the current historical and political context.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-45211084322344133592020-02-19T05:38:38.438-08:002020-02-19T05:38:38.438-08:00I'd offer "re-visioning", if only th...I'd offer "re-visioning", if only that didn't let such folk off the "theft" hook a little too easily...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-86973919877535561642020-02-19T05:38:23.386-08:002020-02-19T05:38:23.386-08:00Part of that is surely MACK's house style whic...Part of that is surely MACK's house style which appears to be "do everything wrong" which I'm sure they think of as "breaking with tradition"<br /><br />Have you seen their margins? Good god.amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-10667921044703712992020-02-19T05:30:50.686-08:002020-02-19T05:30:50.686-08:00"its presumably getting harder to come up wit..."its presumably getting harder to come up with original concepts."<br /><br />It's easier to sell regurgitated 'concepts' [plagiarized work] with a big name behind it. Preferably dead. <br /><br />But it's intellectually dishonest, and just wrong.<br /><br />The book's 'title page,' mysteriously appended at the back (last page) includes:<br /><br />Photographs by Dorothea Lange<br />Edited by Sam Contis<br /><br />-- this explicit admission of authorship is not attributed at the front, nor in how the book is being promoted.David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/afbp.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-1975170119834634412020-02-18T22:47:57.714-08:002020-02-18T22:47:57.714-08:00There’s also mash-up - basically play two or more ...There’s also mash-up - basically play two or more songs at same time. E.g.<br />https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KniyOd1kwac (although this just demonstrates the two songs being written in the same key). Would the photographic equivalent be montage, double-negative, etc?Not THAT Ross Cameronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-9552648337157667632020-02-18T19:07:14.498-08:002020-02-18T19:07:14.498-08:00Excellent. I had vaguely thought "remix?"...Excellent. I had vaguely thought "remix?" but sample also works. Indeed, it feels like music has a fairly complete vocaulary.<br /><br />cover<br />remix<br />sample<br />???<br /><br />are all things, all different overlapping ways to take someone else's work and make it, to this degree or that, your own, to fashion your thing from the old thing.<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-28896920375916172862020-02-18T17:32:06.251-08:002020-02-18T17:32:06.251-08:00In music it’s called sampling. Same word could eas...In music it’s called sampling. Same word could easily apply here. Given the truism that all art is derivative, that the best ideas get borrowed, stolen and reused, it makes sense that other works of art get literally recycled and reinterpreted, given its presumably getting harder to come up with original concepts.<br />As always, the question will come down to execution. Yes, there’s an idea here, but how well did the artist execute on that in producing new images? Not THAT Ross Cameronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-72554941157664170122020-02-18T11:47:18.114-08:002020-02-18T11:47:18.114-08:00True, I intend to follow the path of "A Humum...True, I intend to follow the path of "A Humument", and to co-author an art poem entitled "Dopperfeld" with Charles Dickens. I dare say it will sell a lot better than "A Humument"amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-7708846601199594102020-02-18T11:38:54.543-08:002020-02-18T11:38:54.543-08:00Still, it's so great she got Lange's posth...Still, it's so great she got Lange's posthumous permission to collaborate, because that's her everybody, STFU.David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/afbp.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-8941612055804300482020-02-18T11:21:03.048-08:002020-02-18T11:21:03.048-08:00That is, I think, to deny that there is any differ...That is, I think, to deny that there is any difference between the statement Lange herself made in her work, and what Contis has made out of her work.<br /><br />I don't care what one calls it, but I think it behooves us to realize that they are quite different things.<br /><br />"A Humument" is not in any meaningful way a novel (or a poem) by W.H. Mallock, and nobody would call it one. It is something different, and in no way resembles anything Mallock would ever have done.<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-37393365409442775282020-02-18T11:07:45.514-08:002020-02-18T11:07:45.514-08:00This is [yet] a[nother] Dorothea Lange monograph, ...This is [yet] a[nother] Dorothea Lange monograph, edited by Sam Contis. That is all. <br /><br />I totally get the marketing behind it, oh yes.David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/afbp.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-48789681724630663232020-02-18T10:42:34.385-08:002020-02-18T10:42:34.385-08:00The word 'Interpretation' comes to mind.The word 'Interpretation' comes to mind.Stephen McAteerhttp://www.stephenmcateer.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-73402466381071335532020-02-18T10:40:52.313-08:002020-02-18T10:40:52.313-08:00"What should we call these things, and how sh..."What should we call these things, and how should we talk about them?"<br /><br />Purloined and such.David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/afbp.htmnoreply@blogger.com