Thanks, Andrew. Though in photographic history the phrase "snapshot
aesthetic" invokes Robert Frank's enormously influential practice in "The
Americans". I remember commenting in my first post to "The Snapshot
Project" that I had "subscribed" to the "snapshot aesthetic" for 24 years.
Barry
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:02:38 +0800, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Wonderful description, Barry. The 'photobooth' was a good tangible
>expression of part of the process, and 'walls adorned at every turn'
>is deadly accurate (I sit in a house where the wall in front of me has
>portraits ((sepia and black and white)) of generations of family
>cascading down from a high picture rail). All in all, an ars poetica
>for the Snap.
>
>Andrew
>
>On 12/07/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> SNAP THE SNAPSHOT AESTHETIC
>>
>>
>> You say of the snapshot on the market:
>> Is it like anything?
>>
>> Eventually engaging everyone
>> seems at odds with its pristine
>>
>> instant film and the photobooth
>> walls adorned at every turn.
>>
>> A snapshot of a partition one week:
>> Is it like anything not taken?
>>
>> A couple of A Bathing Ape staff on one knee.
>> A random, non-conceived, & hasty familiarity
>>
>> transforms them with precise technical smoulder.
>> All somehow make maddening sense.
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 7-11-07 (12:06 PM)
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