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That was what I was trying to get across. This yearning and fetishization of "simpler" times and ways of doing things, as though there is something inherently n
by rndmio 9y ago
That was what I was trying to get across. This yearning and fetishization of "simpler" times and ways of doing things, as though there is something inherently noble and valuable about these practices, purely because they are historical.
- platz 9y agoAnd yet there won't quite ever be a Beatles or an Elvis again, will there? It can be very hard to beat the zietgiest of an age at their own game. There is something special in that, which we try to measure up to, but still can't quite reproduce exactly even with better technology. Will there ever be a eugene atget or a walker Evans or a Dorothea Lange that beat them at their own game?
- igouy 9y agoUntil you provide some criteria that would allow us to evaluate "beat them at their own game" for a particular body of photographs … Eugene Atget or Walker Evans or Dorothea Lange were doing their thing in their now -- so beating them at their own game would be doing your thing in your now.
- platz 9y agogreat, we're all in agreement.