Comments on: Tacita Dean: FLOH

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:46:13 +0000

I simply cant accept that an increase of digital photography will decrease this style of snapshot photography especially by fine artists. Many artists pursue vernacular photography using digital techniques aswell. it is ridiculous doomsaying to suggest such projects are at an end because of the decrease in analogue photography.

in fact i don’t think artists or fine art photographers have departed from analogue at all, it is mainly the commercial artist and the amateur who have made that migration. but even so i think people tend to over romanticize the qualities of analogue rather than embracing new possibilities of the digital photograph.

p.s. i do love this piece though, there are some beautiful pictures in it

By: Irena

Irena — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:17:11 +0000

I think she is really a great artist!! FLOH represent a fantastic contemporary project in other simple words just divine. Tacita you really are a genius!

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By: Shane Lavalette

Shane Lavalette — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:15:33 +0000

Tom√�,

I don’t believe the recent decades’ “shift” in using film means the demise of analog practices in fine art photography. And, certainly, I don’t believe this change will cause the physical medium to completely disappear.

In other words, I agree with your first reason for giggling.

By: Tom√� Duarte

Tom√� Duarte — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:49:39 +0000

this is one of those ideas that everyone could have but only a few can execute like this. would love to have this book.

your remarks concerning analog photography make me giggle though… first because it will never disappear, secondly because even digital photography is analog on it’s root. it’s simply an analog photography where one trades all the qualities of film to satisfy one’s laziness.

i wouldn’t trade a leg for a car.