Thanks to photographer Mike Riley, who I met a few years ago when on a course – he posted Blalock’s video on my FB page and it is so relevant.
Worth thinking about in connection to seeing/Hoffman and the over-preciousness of stale photography (his’ work is not that sort). Also Andy Clark (philosopher and tools, language as a tool).
Really love the very playful ‘burlesque’ of the commercial photography – ‘overcomes the mediation’, ‘pushes the threshold’, sees photography as an homogeniser of reality but at the same time ‘unique which travels as itself’
A question at the end was so stupid – Do you ever use make work without using photoshop? Get over yourselves! His work is about contemporary seeing, manipulation and the plasticity of it – di they not listen to his talk? (Photographers can be so frozen at times.)
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