Re: vera lutter pieces on eBay

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From: <RObrien630@aol.com>

> It's always interesting to reflect upon why one image is "valued" more
> than
> another - is it really the image? - or the conceptual behind the image.
> Much
> of today's "artworld" is conceptually based - the image does not "stand
> alone"
> - it is instead dependent upon "non-exhibited" qualities - and it is these
> non-exhibited qualities that determine "value."

True.

This is why most photographers find it so difficult to break into the world
of "Arts", despite the quality of their work.
The language of "Contemporary Arts Photography" is actually so incredibly
hermetic that only the "Artist" can pretend to understand it. It obviously
becomes a powerful barrier to entry.

Read for instance the interview of Vera Lutter by Peter Wollen in Bomb
Magazine
http://www.bombsite.com/lutter/lutter2.html

Regarding her giant pinhole work, she states first her initial experience
when she arrived in NY and intalled in a high-rise appartment:
"Through the windows, the outside world flooded the space inside and
penetrated my body. It was really an impressive experience on all levels,
and I decided to turn it into an art piece: the space, the room inside which
I had this experience, would become the container to transform that very
experience."

And then she says:
"My intention was not to make a photograph as such but to make a conceptual
piece that in its own way repeated and transformed what I had observed. "

I wish I could write such a clear "art statement" about my own giant pinhole
photography work...

Guy
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Received on Fri Nov 4 03:39:15 2005