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« Artistically well-grounded ideas of reality? | Main | Mary Dennis ~ If I were a bush »
Thursday
Oct262006

ku # 424 and a commentary for your consideration



Click Doubleclick - the title of a photography show at Munich's Haus der Kunst. Click, as in camera shutter, Doubleclick, as in computer mouse. The exhibition "...does not simply examine documentary photography as it is affected by the digital revolution; it looks at the very basis of photography, which is rooted both in the world and in documentary realism..." (from a review of the show by Gerry Badger in Aperture, Fall 2006).

One conculsion reached by the exhibition's curator, Thomas Weski, is that photography is no longer (if it ever was) a matter of simply making a simulacrum of what is in front of you, in the computer age it is "...not so much a matter of portrayal or representation of reality, but rather of an artistically well-grounded idea of the world."

Reader Comments (3)

merhaba çalışmalarınız çok beğendim.başarılarınızın devamını dilerim. ı'am no english.
October 26, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterm. zahit böcek
Couldn't have said it better myself. ;-)
October 26, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterJim Jirka
Thanks m. zahit bocek...and you too Jim.

Mr. Bocek is Turkish and he wrote, "I really liked your work (studies). Best of luck in the future.", and, of course, "I am no english."
October 26, 2006 | Unregistered Commentergravitas et nugalis

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