I guess what I'm speaking about in that response to Yang's photos (& I
take your comment about his presence in one of them as serious), is my
personal aesthetic, & therefore response to visual art. Insofar as I
'get' photography as art I tend to be most taken by a sense of
structure & layering of texture in them. A lot of so-called pomo
photography just feels rather facile to me; the Yang & Ford weren't
quite that, but for me they weren't what I want to look at for the
time that what I feel as art demands of me....
Doug
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