4. Aesthetics and Distribution Case (1): Preliminary Notes on Art’s Ability...
“…each encounter produces a new position of assemblages, even as it simultaneously defines a new use for these assemblages” -Gilles Deleuze In this posting, I would like to pursue an earlier tangent,...
View Article5. Toward a Museum of Convention
Last week’s post concerned itself with the academy as a mode of distribution for aesthetic discourse and how the inclusion of art within higher education has the potential to shift the understanding of...
View ArticlePart 1 – What Has Photography Done?
In order to grasp what photography can do as an art today, I want to start with looking back, asking ourselves the question: what has photography done so far? What relevant lessons can we learn from...
View Article1. The Shifting Relations of Still and Moving Photographic Images
The debates on the advent on digital photography in recent years have largely focused on the question whether the digital turn has essentially altered the nature of photography, and whether digital...
View ArticleV. After Liberalism
One of the most idiosyncratic yet unrecognized trends of the 1970s is how it was precisely then, when the prewar documentary culture from the 1920s-30s began to appear in a new light. Besides the...
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2. What Works in the Photo Book World Today and What no Longer Works?
The photo book market faces the same challenges that most markets are facing these days. This includes overproduction (or “overpublishing,” as we call it in our world), a shrinking customer base in the...
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