ku # 469
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 09:56AM 
Spring ice • click to embiggenAbout 2 weeks ago Spring was coming on big time, but, for the last 7 days, it has snowed everyday. Night time temps are in the mid to low teens. We wake up to complete snow cover which is then gone by sundown. I love Winter but I'm ready for Spring.
I recently came across this quote from Edward Steichen - "When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that." - and, after some of the recent ruminations about moderism/postmodernism, meaning and other 'heavy' photography/Art topics, this quote has struck a resonant chord somewhere in my psyche.
Hmmm.
gravitas et nugalis
A follow-up re: "Hmmm." - "Many people, photographers among them, view postmodernism with some hostility, tinged in most cases with considerablbe defensiveness. (see this from Paul Butzi as an excellent example) ...Postmodernist art acccepts the world as an endless hall of mirrors, as a place where all we are is images ... where all we know are images ... There is no place in the postmodern world for a belief in authenticity of experience, in the sanctitiy of the individual artist's vision, in genius or originality. What postmodern art finally tells us is that things have been used up, that we are at the end of the line, that we are all prisoners of what we see. Clearly these are disconcerting and radical ideas, and it takes no great imagination to see that photography, as a nearly indiscriminate producer of images, is in large part responsible for them." ~ Andy Grundberg, from his anthology, The Crisis of the Real
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If anyone thinks modern/postmodern art is difficult to articulate, try quantum physics. Niels Bohr said:
"It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem."