>>4391913Most of these shitty books are just rich kids jerking off their ego and unearned career that only leeches off society because they took 30 shitty pictures of hobos in chicago. Photography is not art. And this shit, like eggleston, certainly is not art by any measure. Photography can only be used to document art. It is not the pencil. It is the paper. You have been scammed. Juxtaposing a photo of an old man with a photo of a wind turbine is not art no matter how much some nitwit flaps his lips about the study and commentary. It is, at best, a joke.
If you want real art you’re basically buying cheap preview catalogs with photobooks, like a picture book of famous paintings. The real shit is prints, and the real art is the masterful direction of lighting and the human form.
