"Everything worked out perfectly because I said yes to my intuition" Ruth Bernhard Next week's meeting: Richard leads the discussion about a current photographer Please click on f8 Schedule Page for changes for the rest of year Critique Day #2 did not happen today as most of the final critiques were from people not present at the meeting. It may be scheduled at an open session later this year. We did talk about the article from "Photograph" by Lyle Rexer talking about embracing the new in photography and learning the new elements of our photographic language in order to both understand and interact with photographers producing the work. The article was sent earlier this week. Bill & Chris talked about their visiting Pier 24 Gallery in SF last week and discussed the current show "Secondhand." The show featured artists that built repositories of found images and re-essembled them into new works of photographic art. The show seemed to explore at some length the new and old role of these images in our society. More importantly it showed the defining new genre of pictures that are driven by process, craft and display. Bill commented on how this related to the Getty Symposium several months ago honoring the 175th birthday of photography. At that time an academic panel member when asked how he would advise new photographers said: "I would tell them to put down their cameras...search the billions of free images on the internet...and re-essemble them into new works of photographic art." That's exactly what the Pier 24 exhibit displayed. The only written statement at the exhibit was one from John Baldessari...paraphrasing from memory... "we don't own images anymore than we can own words." Steve showed some of his vintage pictures when he used a now absent film...Agfa Scala...a fabulous B&W film.
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