Category: Criticism

'tis a law of form..

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“It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
Of all things physical and metaphysical,
Of all things human and all things super-human,
Of all true manifestations of the head,
Of the heart, of the soul,
That the life is recognizable in its expression,
That form ever follows function. This is the law.”

—Louis Sullivan, architect, from “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered,” Lippincott’s Magazine, March 1896.

The Question Always Asked

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Is Photography Over

is photography art// what is photography// what are you photographing// rhetorical rebels or only more baboons at their typewriters.

A certain hit, at least for photographers, or any art group, is to hold a hearing (aka Panel discussion) on a topic suggesting that the Medium // field // whatsit// is over. Kaput, verblunget, endangered, ended … no longer vital to life.

If you need a panel to answer, the answer is obvious.— r. laughlin