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April 19, 2008
all photography is exploitative
Diane Arbus? She's not an artist. Her work really is a voyeuristic freakshow. She wasn't an artist in my eyes. I guess her work is exploitative. You could say all photography is exploitative. Like I could take your image and do anything with it, that's exploitative. So the only thing you can do if you're an artist and you want to take photographs of people, is to take the photographs in such a good way that there's something else in them, there's like beauty or there's some kind of understanding. Then at least you've got something, that'll take your mind away from that exploitative element that is inherent in media. But with Diane Arbus it's just the exploitative thing. There's no visual ideas in them.
Richard Billingham
Posted by amin at April 19, 2008 1:19 AM