Conceptual Photography

[John_4185]

Am I the only one who really SAW things in the frames? Wait. Oh, sorry. The Who are playing on TV at the moment. It's just a flashback. NEVERMIND! (Said Rosanna Danna Danna style)

[John_4185]

Oy, it's Pink Floyd! I need sleep.

[Henry Friedman]

I'm confused ....... if he doesn't use film in the camera, wouldn't the prints be all black? Hmm, maybe he doesn't turn the light on when exposing the paper......

[Brian Vuillemenot]

"Because of the restrictions that film has placed on the creative process since the invention of photography, conceptual photography is made with no film in the camera."

We may all laugh now, but this may be the only form of LF photography available to us after the digital revolution is complete and they stop making film!

[Brian C. Miller]

This reminds me of a bicycle mechanic and his inventions.

I do have to agree with the explanation of conceptual photography's import, though.

[Mark Sawyer]

I think this qualifies more as contemptual than conceptual photography. Actually, I found the best of the conceptual photography of the 70's/'80's to be quite intelligent and intellectually-challenging; a very underappreciated little branch of the art tree. Could be quite beautiful, too. Unfortunately, by its nature, it was too easy to imitate or parody without ever understanding what it was trying to do.

"I'm confused ... if he doesn't use film in the camera, wouldn't the prints be all black? Hmm, maybe he doesn't turn the light on when exposing the paper..."

It seems obvious to me. He's not using transparancy film, rather than not using negative film.

[paulr]

it's conceptual alright. but not new. he's basically ripping off a famous painting from 30 or 40 years ago (sorry, i meant "appropriating"). someone here must remember who the artist was ... it slipped my mind. the concept was also famously played out (or not) in the famously silent John Cage composition, titled by its exact duration.

what i like about the series is that if his tongue is in fact planted in his cheek, we can't tell from his captions. so there's no way to know if the photographer is in on the joke or not.

[Brian C. Miller]

paulr, read the photographer's explanation of his work:

If you seek a deeper understanding of the true import of this artistic breakthrough, please click here for an explanation.

[John Berry ( Roadkill )]

Like Larry the cable guy says " I don't care who you are, now that's funny."

[Bee Flowers]

Paul, that would be Rauschenberg; interestingly he did white paintings even before Cage came with his silent music. They taught at the same place in those days (Black Mountain College).

As to Feinman, his stuff is so cheesy that if he'd be a painter, he'd be Kincaid. For laughs, I'd like to see *talented* people lampooning the art world, not this tedious 'my 6 year old could do that' type of drivel...