Monday, April 25, 2011

So I Pretty Much Hate Contemporary Photography Right Now, And Here is Why


They are all, like many artist now, trying too hard to be clever and strange. And it all just comes out looks retarded. Much like the artist hipster clothes they wear and think make them look so avant-garde. What about any of these photos says anything about anything? Besides that it says that the artist is pretentious by making fun of the society they think they are so far above.



 Joe Zorrilla.


 Joe Zorrilla.


 Joe Zorrilla.


 Joe Zorrilla.





















more digital BS.


















































A lot of photography now is done with digital elements, playing off of the use of the internet, and the images you can find off it. But it all comes out disorganized (usually the intention) , cliché, and stupid.











this says nothing. And if their work is about nothing, then why was it made? And better yet why I am looking at it? 





what a perfect title.


Aaron Graham















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4 comments:

  1. I like the first two. Good thoughts on it the matter. It can get annoying the hipster clothing. It looks stupid when it first come to the street but now you can buy it anywhere you are shopping around. The arts are too bad now. People are tired of expressing an idea of quality so all they do are the blogs for ideas now. So now everyone is waiting on for something real to cling on to and they just are waiting and they are showing that in art. Its kind of sad.
    Thanks.
    Tod

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  2. well in the art world people think that sense everything has been done they will just make fun of what has been done. And as for photographers there are many who want to break away from traditional documentative style of photography so they are branching into these new media. "Making fun of" new media by emulating it but all just ends up looking ridiculous. I told one artist who was painting media in a chaotic way, as too talk about how much images and information flood the world. That it felt like he was telling me he was punching me in the face while he was punching me in the face. And I am sure they all have different things to say about their work but it all looks the same. And yes people now a days, especially artist who are only interested in how artsy they look tend to lack on ideas. Or be so fucking conceptual that is looks fucking retarded.

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  3. :) clever posting!

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  4. Can you credit my work thanks!

    Aaron Graham
    http://aaron-graham.com/

    XOXO

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