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About the book Charlotte Cotton, "Photography as contemporary art"

Not that I somehow knew at a very contemporary art, but I like it. Although I have to take part in their requirements.

Art is not going to be pretty, it might be nice, or dress shoes. There is also to be virtuosic, not very much I care about craft artists. It's their business, or communicate their thoughts through relatively easy to learn photography or by using labor-intensive carving. If someone sits for months ryjąc in stone, but carve platitudes, the workload does not make me get a consolation prize. On the contrary, it only make things worse.

Next: art is supposed to be dense in meaning. Wise, to put it simply. But even that's not the point. Art has to react to their environment, an interest in its social context. Do not pretend that it is more than that, because it is not. It could even be a joke, maybe just some parody elements of reality, so long as it was not done by people okrzykiwanych geniuses who apply virtuoso technique and speak on the timeless themes of "sadness", "self portrait" or "my sad self-portrait."

I write about all this, because Charlotte Cotton, author of Photography as contemporary art , goes to the title theme "photography as art" with the idea of \u200b\u200bart was such as mine. This similarity understanding of art amazes me, because - although it is a common understanding of contemporary, just right (and those who this issue are right, agree with me;)) - the sphere of photography is just a niche, which has been preserved anachronistic understanding of art.

According to this anachronistic stereotype images are artistic pictures taken freely, those that are not service providers, neither commercial nor snapping to remember (holiday party, family reunion). Not only is their purpose on Parnassus, but also their subject. Satirically, but clearly described by James Banasiak, "still prefer to think that the art of photography is dim recesses of the picturesque towns of pictures, dry, black and white portraits of wrinkled old men, and a modern variant - the water droplets immobilized by the precision of the best camera. "(James Banasiak What about photography? , introduction to photography I love Adam Mazur).

Charlotte Cotton trick such anachronistic art photography in one sentence on page 11 and more to it does not come back, dealing with the meaning of art photography today.

And art in the modern sense is not a play of ideas (Stieglitz, Cartier Bresson, Doisneau, anyone who can find pictures in the stories of photographic art.) Contemporary art photography refers to the textbook is not canon, but rather to popular culture or the use of amateur photographs.

(Richard Billingham in the series laughing with Ray , hence )

If you apply visual clichés, it does so consciously.

(Mona Hatoum Back Van Gogh, hence )

artistic photography is not about exhibiting art photographer, just for a simple to use photography as a tool for documentation.

(Tatsumi Orimoto The bread man and a mother suffering from Alzheimer's , hence )

Cotton also devotes two chapters to describe the style of contemporary art photography: deadpan a sterile, neutral, large-format images photography, and is tableau narrative pictures, which is often unclear which use (or ambiguity?), and so much opposition to the clarity of meaning, which is characterized by conventional, correct, professional photos.

It's a very brief summary, which does not reflect what kind of book is cool Cotton. Speaking of shortcuts in question, I will tell you about a flaw in this book: This book is a collection of zajawek. Over two hundred photographs reproduced more or less the same number of artists and artists. For every artist - a valid, recognized, with the achievements - there is one picture and akapicik explaining what's going to keep such an artist in his work in general, in the above photograph in detail. The effect is sometimes comical, as in the Monty Python TV show in which participants were told seven volumes In Search of Lost Time in fifteen seconds. But a collection of

zajawek is nothing like a compendium. And that this is for me the book Charlotte Cotton: an excellent compendium of the cool, revealing photos.