I'm cool with someone holding an inaudible or barely audible camera or phone aloft in my peripheral vision. 303's semi-spoken argument regarding the Gallace paintings is: her paintings of barns and New England houses (or whatever) lose something and seem very banal and ordinary when reproduced, especially in browned-out, badly cropped reproductions. They are attempting to control what every artist would like to control but can't--how others perceive your work and how you are remembered by history. (As annoyed as I get about Apple computers ruining my animated GIF enlargements I don't write Apple demanding they tweak the software--I just bitch.) Agreed its a losing game. Digicams make us aware of Abu Ghraibs and such and have their social uses. I'm sure Rumsfeld wishes he could have enforced a no pictures rule as well.
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- tom moody 2-25-2010 5:05 pm