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Date: 22 January 2004 21:31:13
Saw some of Christopher Burkett's photography in a book yesterday and googled him today. Brilliant, not in my price range, but brilliant. Interesting philosophy too. Have added his site to my list of links.
Is it just me or is American culture far more visually literate and therefore relises the value of photography more than us in the UK? It seems that in the UK we think the term 'fine art photography' is a bit of a pretentious Joke. Maybe we just don't have a history of photography like America does (Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Gary Winogrand, Arbus, Bourke-White, National Geographic, etc, etc, ad nauseum). Or maybe we think of the photographer simply as someone who records the world, but plays little part in the formation and creation of an image, rather than someone who creates images which transcend our normal seeing. If a photographer is the latter, wouldn't that make her a prophet of the visual, showing us what the world is like through her work because we are too dim to really see it?......shall ponder.