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By Their Death

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The RIP of others. Two three today. There are few weeks that pass without a death of the world of meanings.

When younger, I didn’t note the passings of most of my field. Maybe because I was raised on independence. Perhaps because by 22 I’d knew the smell of cordite, skin, blood. Whatever mixture makes real actions, until the past decade, death was final as well as paper.

burial camps: you honor yourself in the way you honor them. The self you never had they are yourself they took the path you never took a live the life that you read about 

the thing they share: they work in black.

George Tice: [‘Bard of New Jersey’ With a Camera, Dies at 86] I knew of his work without following his life. His is work that meanders into or across my ready understanding. It can add. Maybe it will, although I doubt it since my work, world of workers is quite full. My ideas run over.

The others: two from the camp of others, those whose images didn’t cross over my middle or current table. They would have held me as a young imagination, just not for long. They took similar paths, maybe, but they certainly have similar followers. Often death is the marker of similarities.

Too often death marks our life with our absences, lacks, short falls. Reviewing a life provides stimulus to consider ours. Who do we live among. What is your relationship with photography. Do you have a constructive, nurturing system?

How much is enough?

Photography’s Prize

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[price/prize] Photography arrived as entertainment, as substitute skill for the leisure class. By 1970 it had gained acceptance in many Art Schools. The 1980s was comfortable for specialized photography galleries; collectors had appetite.

Understanding the awards as assignment; what you should have known. These are Digests of the great works, those artists changing barriers, sometimes by crossing them; sometimes by crossing them off. Self-study assignment: use this to dig into yourself.

They began with an historian building meaning, making a market. The later recipients have re-evaluated the history of photographic uses.

The MacArthur foundation issued its first prize in the field to a historian, Beaumont Newhall in 1984. Photography had much sand to walk before attaining this acceptance. The most recent fellow is Wendy Red Star. Her stated area of focus: 2-D Visual Art, Photography, 3-D Visual Art That she doesn’t list herself as being a Photographer has caused the TOP, Part Time Salesman, concern about his beloved Photography. She may not even use a camera. What will happen to photography without cameras. What can we review. What will we sell.

Wendy Red Star, Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven), 2014, from the series 1880 Crow Peace Delegation. Original photograph by Charles Milton Bell, 1880, from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

[https://aperture.org/interviews/people-of-the-earth-wendy-red-star/ ]

Some win more… the contest of merit loves to use another’s choice… path dependency isn’t just for mountain climbers. Get one award, another follows.

https://www.macfound.org/ [ based in Chicago, and in 2014 it was the 12th-largest private foundation in the United States] The Fellows Program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program

awards are signs

winning one prize, gaining grants or exhibition history becomes easier with prior recognizitions.

Offer something rewarding to the awarding agent, without being so novel to cause doubt. The more conservative the award, the more palatable must be the recipient.

to those who don’t have them who don’t make signs . Awards are more important to those who have not won an award … they guide the young and disappoint the old

Why Some Hate Art

art travels greater boundaries of space, time, legal, geographic as well. Art transcends; can remain dormant until some future needs it.

non-artists are pissed off, but they can’t change art. Although they can’t participate in art they can participate in church, business, in the commerce of church, in law. They cannot participate in Art, other than as consumers. and has blockades so if they don’t want to consumer set up a blockade 

within the US, public grant and award are used to diminish by those believing God as money 

In constant refrain: dig deeper than the advertisers understand. If the applause goes to the amount of the award, then the clapping is noise.

The prize provides access. Sometimes that is good.

“If I could make an income and have a couple of friends to enthuse with me over ideas and things, I should never enter the Art market, and never exhibit.” Man Ray 1922.