ADDENDUM: sometimes i wonder what is the difference between looking at an urban outfitters catalog and looking at art photography that circulates the internet. it feels like both of them are selling me an ‘alternative image’ to aspire to. i mean, i get that marketing follows art (the opposite could also be argued), but i think artists should feel obliged to make it difficult for that to happen. i also get that this could easily be read as a ‘crotchety’ opinion and the perpetuation of art as an elite sphere isn’t necessarily productive to the ‘goal’ of art (if it has one). all art doesn’t have to be subversive to be good, but what i’m saying is: artists right now, and i am talking in particular about young photographers who produce a very particular (yet very widely proliferated) strain of imagery, are in a complacent funk where it just feels like a shallow celebration of youth culture. d-d-d-dats all folks!!!!

ADDENDUM:
sometimes i wonder what is the difference between looking at an urban outfitters catalog and looking at art photography that circulates the internet. it feels like both of them are selling me an ‘alternative image’ to aspire to. i mean, i get that marketing follows art (the opposite could also be argued), but i think artists should feel obliged to make it difficult for that to happen. i also get that this could easily be read as a ‘crotchety’ opinion and the perpetuation of art as an elite sphere isn’t necessarily productive to the ‘goal’ of art (if it has one). all art doesn’t have to be subversive to be good, but what i’m saying is: artists right now, and i am talking in particular about young photographers who produce a very particular (yet very widely proliferated) strain of imagery, are in a complacent funk where it just feels like a shallow celebration of youth culture.

d-d-d-dats all folks!!!!

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  1. annamack reblogged this from lewischaplin and added:
    hey lewis, first of all thanks for not getting pissy and taking this as a personal attack like a lot of people would’ve...
  2. suddenly reblogged this from annamack and added:
    Machine songs on ads
  3. meghanwithanh reblogged this from annamack and added:
    “shallow celebration of youth culture.” I do...she’s talking about
  4. beautiescandie reblogged this from lewischaplin and added:
    Unfortunately the only real answer to this is to not photograph your friends or anything to do with youth, impossible...
  5. robbrulinski reblogged this from lewischaplin and added:
    I agree with your view on today’s photography culture annamack %100. The end of culture. Everybody wants to
  6. lewischaplin reblogged this from annamack and added:
    things you’re saying....the ‘celebration of youth culture’ though-
  7. mentalreminder reblogged this from annamack and added:
    that’s too far off. nor is...book you should read.
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  9. lifeonfiction reblogged this from annamack and added:
    Anna Mack, ladies
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