Used to be, before digital photography, there were the art photographers over here, and family snap-shooters over there with a great gulf between them. The latter were thoroughly and properly intimidated by the former.
No more. Though the art intellectuals continue doggedly claiming that photographs or digital art must meet their arcane and arbitrary standards before being allowed to be ‘art’, the rest of the world carries on in blissful, joyous disregard. There is a near total disconnect between what you see and hear in insider art magazines, web sites, blogs, and forums and what the great mass of the public (‘unwashed’ as they are sniffily called by the art politburo) is pouring forth, printing, framing and having a hell of a good time making.
“If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?!” – (Pink Floyd)
Dear pointy-headed know-it-alls, we don’t need you any more. Signed, your formerly browbeaten and derided customers and subscribers.
“No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks” – (Alice Cooper)
