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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Hitting the wall...

What is it about certain photographers and walls? The more banal and suburban, or decrepit and entropic the surfaces, the better, it would seem. In the interest of full disclosure, let me state up front that in the past I have spent significant time as a card carrying member of this group, as unflattering as it may be to publicly admit such a thing. I once heard a museum director dismiss this kind of photography as being trivial — a topic only an amateur with no access to interesting subject matter would undertake. Fair enough, I suppose. 



On the other hand, the idea that there is something of formal interest in some of the resulting compositions is defendable, right? Don’t such photographs provide information about the objects in front of the lens, or insights into the mind of the photographer?