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...and Christ's left hand is giving John a bit of a "how's your father".

How is that in anyway cool?

@2: It's cool if you're a pseudointellectual jackass. The above interpretation is about as meaningful as the average numerological garbage about 9/11 being foretold by the number of wrinkles on Nancy Reagan's ass.

You show the image then tell us what is in the image. ???
I read the other day that when Shubert was asked what his piano piece meant he said nothing and just sat down and played it again.

This reminds me of bad art in a Sunday school room. Seriously. It makes me cringe. But maybe that's what the artist is going for.

The person who did all that arranging of elements wasn't the photographer; it was some nameless Floridian religious nut. The photo is a document, not a painting.

You'd think that the way I'm sitting here, I'm just at a messy desk with a pillow on an office chair because the foam is blown out and I have a bony ass. But actually, you'll notice that the pillow is yellow, both eye-catching yet paradoxically a symbol of caution. My coffee mug is empty - have I drank and received satisfaction, or has it yet to be filled and I sit here yearning for the satisfaction of taste and feeling awake? For if I am not awake, the disheveled appearance of my desk suggests not so much slovenly habits as it does unmistakably cast your eye about searching for a visual center, like a Where's Waldo picture. My computer is at the center, but should it be? For if I sit upon a symbol of caution, it demonstrates I am throwing caution into the wind by showing it my ass, yet I am comforted by the caution. You'll notice the Koosh ball beneath a bill, notepad and headphone wires. A few of its tendrils escape and reach upward, like a child suffocating.

I could go on and on and on. Give me a goddamn break.

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Um, 3, 4, 7, and 8, you're aware that there's an unbroken 500-year modern tradition of describing and discussing imagery in art, right? It's not really a novelty.

photographs can be interesting. this one is interesting.

@10 Yeah, but alot of people feel it isn't interesting.

It doesn't seem conscious acts created this setup. It seems like a church has a baptismal tub and its in the corner out of the way. And some guy took a photo of it.

Wooooooo. It might be interesting if it was intentional. Some of the observations are so prosaic.

@11, the same could be said of Atget's shop windows, or Robert Adams' Colorado tract homes. Photography's history is rich with artists who just "took a photo of it."

well, sure, different people will find different thing interesting... and to varying degrees. i only find it somewhat interesting. it's like the description of a normal room, which isn't interesting until you start making observations. it says almost as much about the artist and the viewer as it does the actual place photographed.

that said, i wouldn't want it hanging in my place. and i don't like it. it's merely somewhat interesting, as art.

Fnarf, I get the feeling you're being obtuse and retrograde for the sake of being obtuse and retrograde. Which isn't like you.

What's up?

The person who did all that arranging of elements wasn't the photographer; it was some nameless Floridian religious nut. The photo is a document, not a painting.

That's a strange approach to critique.

How many painters have "documented" similarly? Isn't most art about capturing a moment, in one way or another?

No, I don't think it is.

But photography is different. Photography IS about capturing the moment, or capturing what you intend to claim the moment was. Photography is different than painting -- good photography, at any rate; stylized photography that imitates the action of painting (posed, designed, describable in formulaic painting terms) is usually shitty photography.

Good photography -- and I think this is one -- isn't usefully explicated by this kind of art-catalog description. It just is what it is. Eric F has it right; those are great examples.

If I was to find out that the photographer HAD arranged these items, it would cease to be an interesting or valuable photograph, and cease to be interesting or valuable art.

I believe you all need to recalibrate your sarcasm detectors. Jen is analyzing a rather ordinary photo of a quite bland painting as if it were some masterwork.

And, I'd just like to point out that Jen forgot to note the stairs in the lower left ascending toward the light. Duh.

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