Visual Art Isaac Layman on In/Visible: “Photography’s not right or wrong, it’s just this thing.”
posted by on August 7 at 13:00 PM
Isaac Layman’s Medicine Cabinet (2008), 73 1/2 by 59 inches
Standing in front of the above image of his and his wife’s medicine cabinet just the way he found it one day, Isaac Layman talks about photography as a form of gossip:
(*To hear the entire podcast with Layman, click here.)
Plain TUMS? Gross. Mixed berry or nothing.
If I take a picture of my bookshelf, or my open fridge, will you guys post that under the 'Visual Art' banner as well?
Dunno, ReverendZ. Jen Graves once did a post about how she had been vomiting from food poisoning and she put that under Visual Art. I'd give it a shot.
Where's the door?
W7ngman: Did I post it under Visual Art? Ha!
Now if this was a painting done in photo realism, I would respect this as a work of art. I don't respect something I can do myself.
Maybe I'll take a photo of my lower half sitting on the copy machine, blow it up real large, frame it, and call it art. Seriously with the crap that passes for "Visual Art" on here I'm sure it would be success.
What's in the tube on the second shelf from the top?
Why does his wife have "Old Spice"? P.U.
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