Posts filed under c-print

a world of one’s own

Something that Jeffrey Deitch said in the book, Collecting Contemporary (by Adam Lindemann) I thought was a very useful idea for understanding contemporary art.  Deitch is one of New York’s art dealers, with a background in finance as well as art.  Although he doesn’t come out and say it, his perspective is one where art… (read more)

the unremarkable becomes art

Can a photograph be art?  Images constructed inside the camera, or via Photoshop can be art-like, so it’s possible that photography can mimic art.  But if the image is everyday content, and it’s, well, big, does that make it more art-like? Art World (April/May 2009) makes a “rare” interview with Andreas Gursky about his photographs… (read more)