Ken (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shadowplay2) wrote,@ 2006-10-17 17:45:00 |
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over time
A quote in todays Chicago Sun-Times, in an exhibit review by art critic Kevin Nance:
"the most common trajectory.... is from documentary realism toward greater or lesser degrees of abstraction, mystery, poetry, symbolism, and magic. Photographers, it seems, tend to get bored with life as it is; they want to show how it might be, or ought to be - or, even better, to reveal the depth beneath its conventional surfaces, the strangeness that was there all along but invisible."
He's talking about work currently at the Art Institute by Avedon, Karsh, Penn, Cartier-Bresson, and more... earlier and later work by each, at least two decades apart, to show their "evolution."
Yeah. The part about depth, especially.... yeah.
A quote in todays Chicago Sun-Times, in an exhibit review by art critic Kevin Nance:
"the most common trajectory.... is from documentary realism toward greater or lesser degrees of abstraction, mystery, poetry, symbolism, and magic. Photographers, it seems, tend to get bored with life as it is; they want to show how it might be, or ought to be - or, even better, to reveal the depth beneath its conventional surfaces, the strangeness that was there all along but invisible."
He's talking about work currently at the Art Institute by Avedon, Karsh, Penn, Cartier-Bresson, and more... earlier and later work by each, at least two decades apart, to show their "evolution."
Yeah. The part about depth, especially.... yeah.
