Is this a BAD photograph

CraigK

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Forgive me if this prolongs the agony for some, but I found the discussion regarding a "good" photograph to be quite interesting. Also, if this thread should be moved to the critique area, feel free.

So, with a simple twist of the google wrist I came up with a link to some really
Bad Photography

Have a look, see what you think. I was quite taken by the show and by some of the images, which, if dressed up with a suitable artist statement and served with the appropriate wine and cheese in an uptown gallery, could go for 5K a pop.
 

Steve Smith

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It seems to go along with the current global trend of glorifying the mediocre and ignoring the artistic.



Steve.
 

tim atherton

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Steve Smith said:
It seems to go along with the current global trend of glorifying the mediocre and ignoring the artistic.



Steve.
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Steve, what's "the artistic" ?
 

Wigwam Jones

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Steve Smith said:
It seems to go along with the current global trend of glorifying the mediocre and ignoring the artistic.

Steve.
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Then what is 'vernacular' photography? Not artistic?
 

Michel Hardy-Vallée

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Oh brother, people keep rediscovering bad photo! The Lomos, toy cameras, polaroid, etc etc. What they fail to admit is that they really want to make good pictures that follow a standard different from the established good. But they don't want to make bad pictures, come on.
 

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They were probably a collection of photographs that a lab collected that were at the beginning of all the rolls they processed.

They were frame -1, while the photographer was winding the film forward to the correct starting point.

I've probably got some of those that are worth a fortune.


Michael
 

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They were probably a collection of photographs that a lab collected that were at the beginning of all the rolls they processed.

They were frame -1, while the photographer was winding the film forward to the correct starting point.
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Holy crap! If this is "art", I've contributed my fair share to the local landfill. Some of them were't frame 1 either!
 
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