Visual Art Currently Hanging
posted by on June 13 at 10:00 AM
Gregory Blackstock’s Attitude Annie’s, San Diego County Fair (1993), photograph, 6 by 4 inches
At Garde Rail Gallery. (Gallery site here.)
*Blackstock was at the opening of this show last week (his first photography show?), and he was wearing his own designs on his back—in a shirt adapted from his art made by Comme des Garcons. As someone remarked to me later, “The shirt costs more than the art.” Still, it was a great look on him.
I want to tear my fucking eyes out.
That's a terrible picture. I've taken hundreds of similar shots, some worse, many better, and so have lots of other people. Martin Parr is the master of this style, but this is incompetently framed and incompetently exposed.
@3 -- Martin Parr is god. I have one of his photographs, also a cracking good book portraying British life.
My only quibble with your comparison is that his pictures are colour-pregnant and sharp to the point of being severe whereas this one is shot through a bleaching cloud of light.
Martin Parr IS god, but I didn't say this looked like one of his. Martin Parr might have been able to get a decent picture here, I don't know, but this guy didn't. This looks like something you'd throw out when you got it back from Bartell's. Or worse, a cell phone shot. Actually, Parr did a whole series of cell phone shots that were, naturally, brilliant.
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