Among the topics about which I am still determining what I think is the role of photojournalism as art. I have been thinking about it for a while but the two series of photographs in the Whitney Biennial made it a topic of conversation over the last week. Additionally there are a number of photo shows in NYC galleries that seem to qualify as photojournalism.
Why should a documentation be art?
Or rather, how does documentation become art?
It can't just be the way the photograph is taken. Because there is no particular style that makes it more art-like than another. And when a picture enters the cultural dialogue it is no longer just a photograph, nor a work of art, but according to Barthes, it becomes mythic.
This is beyond my scope to consider. Clearly I will need to come back to this at some much, much later date.
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