Posted in art, photography, tagged alfred stieglitz, marcel duchamp, painting, photography on February 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
dear stieglitz
even a few words i don’t feel like writing.
you know exactly what i think about photography.
i would like to see it make people despise
painting until something else will make
photography unbearable —
there we are.
affectionately
marcel duchamp
17 may 1922, new york
[ stefanie ]
Posted in art, tagged juergen teller, marcel duchamp, new york, photography, polaroid cameras, ryan mcginley, the whitney, victoria beckham, william eggleston on November 10, 2008| Leave a Comment »
william eggleston did for color photography what marcel duchamp did for urinals turned on their sides.
that is, he took what was once seen as a rather banal object of the masses and lifted it into the realm of high art.
william eggleston (1939-) was cool before ryan mcginley stripped his friends down and set them loose in the wilderness, before juergen teller put victoria beckham in a shopping bag, and tons before hip kids discovered the grainy over-saturated magic to be found in a polaroid camera.
william eggleston, conveniently, has a retrospective up at the whitney from now until the end of january entitled william eggleston: democratic camera photographs and video 1961-2008. we will see you there.
[ stefanie ]
festo 
