Well, maybe I was a little fucked when I wrote my comments on the latest Juarez piece, but looking back on it there was nothing I would have written when I wasn’t fucked.
In case it was me, no, I didn’t mean to write fucked, though I often do write fucked, especially here, I don’t recall having done it lately. This may be a very slight exaggeration but i swear i have not been alone in a room for weeks…rio started early november and except for some time with mom at Christmas, i been in rio one way or another…behind the camera or making prints and moving them around on the wall and working on a layout…a real mom and pop shop operation….so so so much fun…i just do it.i do not ask anybody for anything…i won’t make any money either, but i do not care.i will have done it.period.Īnyway, i am home alone….afternoon light coming through the loft window….mild sunny winter day new york….my loft in the afternoon is like a womb…you been here, you know what i mean…you can’t get out…right? anyway, i see a joint on the coffee table…i have too much to do to be smoking anything, but well you know yes you know it happened….that put me in the mood to peruse a few comments and low and behold i stumbled across your Hugo video……damn….i mean really….i don’t think i will want to see yours 10 times in a row like i felt with Ballen’s but it sure tripped me out under the circumstances….i am now seriously inspired to make one of these babies…no more traditional stuff for me…i know i am supposedly too old to be doing new shit, and it is dangerous cause people will accuse me of all kinds of things, but i really do not care about that either…i am on to some new things.you might really hate my rio “book” coming…or you will love it….or you will love/hate it…anyway things going forward….for me, and for everybody here……glad you still with us gladdy…and thanks for making the afternoon even more intense than it already was….ĭavid, with all these Mike types around, I’m not sure who you were directing that last comment at.
I am looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks….and i do thank you for putting together the young photographer’s show for HeadOn…for this we are walking on the same turf… In any case, we both agree on the power of this Ballen piece…but can’t we celebrate this without taking some sort of twisted cynical cheap shot at other forms? I guess my point is only that each part of the video is an art form unto itself… to throw out the baby with the bathwater is not something i think Ballen would agree with…īad videos and bad stills are just bad…liberation from a “bunker mentality” does not necessarily art om one bunker to another? a bunker is a bunker and sometimes yours seems the deepest of all… “bunker mentality”? your own? and we were not even discussing “photojournalism” at all….we were discussing the power of stills…not in any way to take away the power of the collaboration of graphics, theater, and music collaborations….Ī bunch of poor still pictures do not a strong video make…you just cannot believe ever in the still image…a harsh critique on some videos would say that collaboration with other art forms does not mean you should use the other mediums as some sort of crutch… Most of us agree with the power of this video…that is why i featured on the front page of Burn…and i totally agree with your first two comments…. Please…insulting as a technique for making a point gets a bit wearying Imants….it is your only technique unfortunately….if some were to attack you the same way you attack others, you would be looking a bit foolish.
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