a crank’s progress

4 Comments

1. Frank wrote:

   Interesting … I had this page open in my browser.

   It’s one man’s speculation as to how the work of various famous photographers would be reviewed by the Flickr crowd.

   Monday, June 26, 2006 at 7:23 PM | Permalink
2. paul wrote:

   Yup, that’s where I got the link. 

   What’s interesting is how the deleteme crowd insists they’re right: they seem determined to defend a subjective decision as if it were an objective one. Blurry? Bad. Subject not centered? Bad. Limited tonal range? Bad. 

   It’s not just a matter of not seeing art in a given photograph; I think it’s more a mistrust of or discomfort with anything that isn’t obviously representational. They must have been teased for coloring outside the lines . . . . 

   Monday, June 26, 2006 at 7:42 PM | Permalink
3. Josh wrote:

   The deleteme group on flickr is the the shallowest, most status-conscious clique you remember from high school, writ large. Expecting them to have any sort of meaningful critique of art more than a few weeks old is … I’m at a loss for a good metaphor. It’s not about what is and is not good art there, it’s about how well you fit in with the groupthink. See also livejournal “am I pretty enough to join this community? Vote for me; I’m an attention whore!” groups. In 30 years, anybody from that group who’s become an artist of any merit will be deeply, deeply ashamed of their youthful opinions. And I’ll still be going to the museum to see collections of Cartier-Bresson prints.

   Monday, June 26, 2006 at 8:23 PM | Permalink
4. paul wrote:

   The deleteme group on flickr is the shallowest, most status-conscious clique you remember from high school, writ large.

   I had never heard of it before today and I plan to rinse any awareness of it out of my brain later. 

   it could be used as an inverse value meter: if they like it, it must be crap, and if they hate it, you’re on the right track.   

   Monday, June 26, 2006 at 8:35 PM | Permalink

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