Re: [Leica] B.D.'s hitherto invisible photo display.....WHich is now visible...

[Nick Poole <nick.botton@camphill.org.uk>]

>OK: The site would be much more interesting if it featured something other
>than "Photo not available" about 40 times... ;)
>
>M.
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>And yet, because you took the time to look at it, it is "art"! In fact I
>would go even further and claim that it is "fine" art of the highest order.
>The repetition of the "Photo not available" message is oddly compelling and
>mysterious. The viewer is left wondering just what pictures were taken. As I
>look at a frame I am left pondering, was this suppose to be a picture of
>perhaps some people driving in a car, or maybe a small group of people
>sitting around and talking as they drink some coffee. There is an incredible
>amount of unresolved tension. Will the viewer ever know what the picture
>was?
>
>I also see the obvious influence of Eggleston. It is as if B.D. has taken
>Eggleston's ideas of photographing the everyday and the banal a quantum leap
>forward. I find find the entire presentation radical and groundbreaking.
>Surely, this will be the next big thing. I just wonder what the cost of a
>print would be. A great big piezograph print of "Photo not available" over
>my computer would look great.
>
>Tom :^) Finnegan
>Seattle

Great, Tom!
Humour has a way of pointing out the flaws that rhetoric sometimes cannot.
Nick.