Comments on: Follow up to “The photography-integrated-into-life method” http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/2009/05/follow-up-to-%e2%80%9cthe-photography-integrated-into-life-method%e2%80%9d/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:01:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bryanf http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/2009/05/follow-up-to-%e2%80%9cthe-photography-integrated-into-life-method%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-10862 bryanf Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:53:15 +0000 http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/?p=1943#comment-10862 yes, I think as with most debates about photography, it's boiling down to a matter of sensibility. Maybe the photography community is too optimistic in their desire for everyone to embrace all. It's just not reality. There are and always have been enormous differences over sensibility in all mediums. I don't see any problem with stratification. Diversity of opinion and methodology is healthy and can only make photography that much more interesting... yes, I think as with most debates about photography, it’s boiling down to a matter of sensibility. Maybe the photography community is too optimistic in their desire for everyone to embrace all. It’s just not reality. There are and always have been enormous differences over sensibility in all mediums.

I don’t see any problem with stratification. Diversity of opinion and methodology is healthy and can only make photography that much more interesting…

]]> By: Ian Aleksander Adams http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/2009/05/follow-up-to-%e2%80%9cthe-photography-integrated-into-life-method%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-10858 Ian Aleksander Adams Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:29:11 +0000 http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/?p=1943#comment-10858 It's really hard to wrap my mind around some aspects of this conversation. "The fine art world" is one of them. Much of our conversations seems to assume its a kind of monolithic entity. It just really isn't - it can't be. I mean, this blog seems part of it, to me. So there's the difference between it and the NYT magazine. There isn't one controlling editorial process for the entire fine art world. It's just so much more organic. Likewise, the idea of success has to be much more varied. Not everyone even wants to be in the moma. It’s really hard to wrap my mind around some aspects of this conversation. “The fine art world” is one of them.

Much of our conversations seems to assume its a kind of monolithic entity. It just really isn’t – it can’t be. I mean, this blog seems part of it, to me.

So there’s the difference between it and the NYT magazine. There isn’t one controlling editorial process for the entire fine art world. It’s just so much more organic.

Likewise, the idea of success has to be much more varied. Not everyone even wants to be in the moma.

]]> By: Conceptual projects: photographic trend or stifling academic conspiracy? Discuss. | Camden Hardy Photography: the blog http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/2009/05/follow-up-to-%e2%80%9cthe-photography-integrated-into-life-method%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-10852 Conceptual projects: photographic trend or stifling academic conspiracy? Discuss. | Camden Hardy Photography: the blog Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:00:46 +0000 http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/?p=1943#comment-10852 [...] been a discussion taking place between Ian Aleksander Adams, J.M. Colberg, and Bryan Formhals about the “photography-integrated-into-life method” and its relationship with the fine [...] [...] been a discussion taking place between Ian Aleksander Adams, J.M. Colberg, and Bryan Formhals about the “photography-integrated-into-life method” and its relationship with the fine [...]

]]> By: Dan http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/2009/05/follow-up-to-%e2%80%9cthe-photography-integrated-into-life-method%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-10600 Dan Fri, 29 May 2009 05:03:31 +0000 http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/?p=1943#comment-10600 Maybe you could think of "acceptance in the fine art world" as something similar to "having a feature story on yourself published in the NYT magazine." There are different ways to go about achieving these things. One way would be to make them your *goal*, secretly or not. Another way would be to just do what you do, for it's own sake, and see who you end up bringing along. The irony is that I'm sure most people who are featured on the cover of the NYT magazine never used that as motivation. It's a validation of what they actually *did*. Maybe you could think of “acceptance in the fine art world” as something similar to “having a feature story on yourself published in the NYT magazine.” There are different ways to go about achieving these things. One way would be to make them your *goal*, secretly or not. Another way would be to just do what you do, for it’s own sake, and see who you end up bringing along. The irony is that I’m sure most people who are featured on the cover of the NYT magazine never used that as motivation. It’s a validation of what they actually *did*.

]]> By: BennehBoy http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/2009/05/follow-up-to-%e2%80%9cthe-photography-integrated-into-life-method%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-10557 BennehBoy Thu, 28 May 2009 11:42:03 +0000 http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/?p=1943#comment-10557 I think there's probably a healthy middle ground, particularly in relation to what most of us using flickr are up to: we shoot life as it happens, and most of the good stuff from that ends up in our streams. Out of that people will divine groupings of photographs, or will stumble upon the recognition of the seeds of a project. I think it's fairly safe to say that many of us will have ongoing projects or project aspirations, whether we have the means to drive them forward is another subject. I guess the above processes are the bits that we rarely get to see from established name photographers, and that's purely because the 'art world' promotes it's own agenda - consumption, in defined marketable quanta. I think this is why Conscientious, and its ilk, discount the crux of my first paragraph, they are solely interested in a finished a la carté product - the consumable. I think there’s probably a healthy middle ground, particularly in relation to what most of us using flickr are up to: we shoot life as it happens, and most of the good stuff from that ends up in our streams. Out of that people will divine groupings of photographs, or will stumble upon the recognition of the seeds of a project.

I think it’s fairly safe to say that many of us will have ongoing projects or project aspirations, whether we have the means to drive them forward is another subject. I guess the above processes are the bits that we rarely get to see from established name photographers, and that’s purely because the ‘art world’ promotes it’s own agenda – consumption, in defined marketable quanta.

I think this is why Conscientious, and its ilk, discount the crux of my first paragraph, they are solely interested in a finished a la carté product – the consumable.

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