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Putting aside matters of opinion, I think he’s wrong that the photos that sell are the photos he’s describing.

You know, “images of American highways, petrol stations and diners… blighted industrial and urban scenes in muted tones… deliberately amateur snapshots documenting ?everyday? life… nightmarish visions of our present and future.”

It’s out there, but I wouldn’t say it’s overwhelming, and I wouldn’t say it’s from D?sseldorfian influence. I see more of the Vancouver school in the photographs I’ve seen that meet his descriptions. I see more influence from the neorealism cinematographers too.
Both of his core assumptions (1, the market is flooded with this and 2, it’s those damnable D’Dorfians’ doing) seem, I dunno, intellectually lazy and frumpy.
I’m no art historian, and I don’t see as much photography as I’d like, so I’m not being rhetorical. Maybe it’s because he writes like he’s used to knowing a lot more than his audience that makes me think he’s so full of it; I’m genuinely curious.

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Anyone else think he’s completely wrong?
There are tons of other photography styles flourishing. Pop art photography is huge, fantastic art photography is huge with these new digital whatsits, abstract is very popular, etc.
As they say in music: if it all sounds the same to you that just means you don’t like that genre.

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For the record, I got a pair of mini handcuffs and wanted to get a shot of a stapler being led into Cook County Jail but was told I could not photograph there. Tons of lawyers walking by, none of them chimed in with a helpful “It’s my expert legal opinion this fellow is allowed to photograph here.”

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All this raises an interesting point. Do you guys suppose if I mugged a guy with a nice camera set up I could get away with it? Like, just run up behind the guy, hit him with a blackjack, then pretend to remove his mask Scooby-Doo style when I’m really strapping on a fake beard, then shout “He’s Machbous al Kabsah!!”, throw all the camera stuff in a van and drive off.

I could use some opinions on this before Tuesday night.

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Old, but relevant.

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It’s huuuuge. Over 10′ wide, and presumable very detailed.

For art from a living artist that breaks $100,000, this is the easiest to understand I’ve seen.

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Yowza.

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His prints are usually huuuuuge, so my guess is it’d have to be that size to appreciate.

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So yay me?

Yes, absolutely yay you. Congratulations.

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/ftfy

I spent 3 minutes trying to find what you fixed, then my left ciliary cramped.

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All is for your glory Lord Huitzilopochtli!
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I’d hit up the local fabric stores, community theaters, improv groups, etc too.

A lot of fabric stores (at least in Chicago) have a bulletin board with 500 notes like “need size 0 model” or whatever, much like Guitar Center has 500 notes of “need jazz background bassist”.

Small theaters and improv groups (if you work for free) are nice because the other people there will push the one being shot to go further with it. There’s usually people looking for something to do while other people use the stage. It’s also in the partially pro area.

I’ve only done 2 shoots where I was directing someone, but the second time went better because I we talked a bit about what I was looking to do with the photo; and, you know, knew what I was looking to do and how I planned to do it. Lack of confidence is contagious, and preparation shows.

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So we’re all on the same page, right?

Right. And cars are alive, right?

They consume, they excrete, they are mobile, modern ones even have brains that think

They still don’t reproduce though.

wanna bet?

Until I see little Smart cars waddling away, it didn’t happen.

How many nested quotes can we get?

At some point they’ll collapse in on themselves and form a black quote hole.

I wanna see that in a twisted kinda way 😈

A hole from which no substance can escape.

Past the point of no return.

Would it help if we divided by zero?

do
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I’m dizzy now…thanks!

Just wait until Elsinore gets back.

So will the forum engine start line wrapping the earlier ones at some point?

Wheres my black quote hole?

Improbability passing 10,000 to 1. Passing 100,000 to 1. Passing 1,000,000 to 1. Approaching infinite improbability. Standby.

You know, it kind has that Mayan temple thing goin’ on now. Xtapolopacetl is pleased.

U-Man‘s original post is getting narrower, but not as quickly as I might have thought. Perhaps there’s a quantum effect in force.

Keep going, guys! I think if we compress the first quote enough, we might be able to finally discover the Higgs-Boson.

Oh good Lord.

/still playing along

I must get in on this experiment

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Would a hooker wearing a clear plastic poncho over her standard hookerwear count?

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Fleshlight better come out with an EOS adapter.

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