Jan. 12, 2012 at 10:57pm with 7 notes
Reblogged from photographsonthebrain
...: Cass Bird & Lucas Foglia : Rewilding & Re-Wilding

whileseated:


Cass Bird has a book due to launch in February for a project called “Rewilding”.

“Over the past ten years, Cass Bird (born 1974) has established herself as one of the foremost portraitists of contemporary America. Her photographs of young women and men casually…

As much as I like these photographs/bodies of work, those press statements are really borderline absurd. For example “the fluid expression of gender roles and androgyny in today’s youth culture”: this fluid expression of baloney in today’s art-photography culture. It’s almost as if those press statements are written for museum curators only.

  1. mikeseb reblogged this from conscientious and added:
    Jörg has said it for me. Tiresome art-speak bullshit. Can’t the work just stand, or fall, on its own?
  2. conscientious reblogged this from photographsonthebrain and added:
    As much as I like these photographs/bodies of work, those press statements are really borderline absurd. For example...
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