As a response to this post made by Alec, I thought I’d indulge in atleast a portion of his assignment:
Spectrum 2.0
© Alec Soth1. If this is the X axis, what would make an interesting Y axis?
2. Assign a number to ten photographers: Bechers (0), Cartier-Bresson (5), etc.
And so, I whipped this up:
00 – Bernd and Hilla Becher
01 – Andreas Gursky
02 – Tim Davis
03 – Jeff Wall
04 – Walker Evans
05 – Stephen Shore
06 – Alec Soth (I just had to)
07 – Martin Parr
08 – Wolfgang Tillmans
09 – Nan Goldin
10 – Richard Billingham
Now, back to thinking about the wonderful possibilities of question number one.
10 Comments
December 21, 2006 – 1:01 pm
Shane, you get an ‘A’ for this assignment. Bravo.
December 22, 2006 – 12:53 pm
Jeff Wall is a 10, not a 3. His work is not what I would call informational at all.
It so far experiental in regards to the conceptual aspect of the work.
December 22, 2006 – 12:55 pm
Acutally, I’m thinking more of a triangle with Conceptual at the top.
December 22, 2006 – 11:12 pm
agreed
December 23, 2006 – 12:06 am
I was hesitant to use Wall at all in the spectrum of things. But, alas, I have my reasons. Joe, the triangle sounds interesting — I’d love to see a graph/diagram with photographers plotted in.
December 23, 2006 – 12:41 pm
experiential
Y Axis = conceptual – > formalism
I will think about graphing this, and get you response later.” />
How bout this.
X Axis = informational -> experiential
Y Axis = conceptual – > formalism
I will think about graphing this, and get you response later.
December 23, 2006 – 5:37 pm
See link above, and I want to hear your reasons.
December 23, 2006 – 8:34 pm
Wall’s photographs are often referencing other works of art. That is one of the important aspects of his images and, to me, it seems that understanding his allusions simply involves being provided with the information, and not necessarily the “experience.” And again, as Jorn Ake points out on Alec’s blog:
In other words, the realm of photography is already based on principles of information. There is no escaping this. In a sense, this conclusion makes the Spectrum worthless; it would be hard (if not impossible) to define a truly noninformative photograph. And is experiential really the polar opposite? If informational is realism is experiential a form of abstraction?
December 24, 2006 – 1:31 am
What is comes down to is plain and simple.
the subjective reality that being objective when viewing art is impossible.
(or anything else in any case.. ie politics, taste, love, desire, etc)
awesome.
I’m going to get off my ass and get a new blog going, and new work
for all you to laugh your ass off at.
Merry Holidays.
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