For those who are not guadianistas Mr Jones writes a weekly arts column and often has it in for us photographers. He recently declared that photography could never be an Art and has no place in galleries.I think he likes the abusive comments his pieces garner.
But he has just had a go at the pretentious nature of amateur photography and I'm right there with him on this one.
The Art of photography is seeing the same thing as everyone else but presenting it differently so that people see it anew not re-photographing the same old things in the same way so that one persons work becomes indistinguishable from the next.
This is obviously a theme that is going around. Not long ago we drew attention to a piece on Petapixel on a similar theme. Mr Jones goes a bit overboard at times but there is a lot to think about in his article.
His final paragraph reads:
Photography matters when it finds original subject matter. It is a record of the world, so the real art of the camera lies in discovering something new and personal or revelatory. When Richard Billingham turned the camera on his family he showed his own world, bravely, movingly. When Robert Capa took his camera to the heart of war he found unforgettable truths. Brassai discovered an entire nocturnal world of magic, desire and sleaze in his book Paris by Night. Garry Winogrand had an incredible eye for the strange and compelling and his photographs bristle with reality. Larry Burrows in Vietnam created images that seem composed by some great tragic artist yet are utterly, dreadfully real.
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