Slog - Comments on Currently Hanging http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_132 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.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:03:03 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe I want to tear my fucking eyes out.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_132#c1050189 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_132#c1050189 Visual Art Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:41:20 -0800 Comment by Fnarf 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.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_132#c1050272 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_132#c1050272 Visual Art Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:27:33 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball @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.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_132#c1050763 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_132#c1050763 Visual Art Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:57:57 -0800 Comment by Fnarf 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.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_132#c1051321 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_132#c1051321 Visual Art Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:03:03 -0800