>>3679486No, I was just explaining why Robert Adams' book is considered influential. Because according to your ignorant judgment it was "noise music where anybody can scratch glass for two hours."
Words have been a part of photography since it's invention. Every past master have used words with their photography projects. I guess you have never seen an exhibition or read an artistic statement or read a photobook. There aren't many "words" either with these projects just one or paragraphs of introduction. And maybe an essay for academics. Photographs are complicated things, some photographs don't need any context like the photograph of a sunset but some photographs do need context to work like what if some photographer was dying because of an accident in the middle of nowhere but in those last moments he take few moments to appreciate the beauty of sunset and decides to capture the last photo of his life of that sunset. Adding few lines will literally change everything. I don't know why you're demonizing "words" when though through the creation of art we aim to share our ideas to spread better understanding of the subject. And artistic statements don't spoil it rather reinforce it. Sure in some cases you pass useless artworks through world salads but this isn't the here in these projects.
I have never been to an art school. I am a dropout with an internet connection. Just like /mu/ anons listen to classic/contemporary records, listen to classical music pieces from centuries ago, just like /lit/ anons read the literary/philosophical works from thousands of years ago to contemporary era in the same spirit I explore photography. And you're delusional if your think increasing your visual literacy and learning about art history should remain institutionalized for cultural elite.
Study pic related then study Ansel Adams’s Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico (1944). It's visual conversation between two masters of the medium exploring the nature of truth.
