*Some or these work like gangbusters, while others are actively irritating. Those effects have little to do with the formal qualities of the photograph. The ones with the
prettiest buildings, best lighting angles and most cunning Photoshop techniques
tend to be as vapid as novelty postcards.
*A good vocabulary for this would have to include historical insight and collage.
Collage can be achingly surreal or merely annoying, and a great deal of clumsy cultural
engineering goes on in the effort we
Published on August 14, 2009 03:19