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The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics. Why look at any particular image, when they are literally everywhere? Perhaps “photography” has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps “photography,” as…
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humansofnewyork: “You want to photograph me eating chicken?”“Yep.”“Well, if I let you, I need you to help me deliver a message.”“What’s that?”“I work at this library. And before that, I was coming here for twenty years. It’s my favorite place in the world. As many people know, the main reading room of this library is…
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Why do men feel threatened by women?” I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical device, “a male friend of mine.” It’s often used by female journalists when they want to say something particularly bitchy but don’t want to be held responsible for it themselves. It also lets people know that…
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As it turns out, what Fries was describing was unfortunately becoming a reality of the AAA console business. The economic pressures of AAA were mounting; it wasn’t just a Microsoft problem, but the industry as a whole was dealing with the push and pull between creativity and profitability. Fries: Publishers created a void that indies…