Category: A Symbol Life

Detail Expands the Lie

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, da net, fact, the fora, the meta, the When Where

ways of the expert ..

Truth takes fewer words than a lie.

If you don’t know, you ask. Who answers — how they answer reveals much about them. What you accept reveals more about you. If you tolerate a liar, a buffoon, are you tolerant, or a buffoon? How is your visitor to know the difference. Isn’t it more likely that the quits vs. the stays are better aware.

What does every detail mean? In the case of response for evidence.

What are the foundations of question / answer forms; are they the W’s: who, where, when, etc. If someone says they are going to reveal, what is it that they are to reveal? When someone lays claim to history, a story used to convince you of some action you should take, what does it take for you to believe enough to follow that guidance?

A brief statement filled out with more words, while lacking checkable facts. These are what is stored on the forums. Claims made in self-defense, by those with low self-esteem.

more words.. I looked for something that might be considered a checkable fact.

— where: high-end, pricey, downtown San Francisco

— what: rare, very early photos

— what: lawsuit; bankruptcy

— when: the 80s

Expensive indeed. $7K per print would have been much more than the price at auction of established prints in 1985. Although, one of a kind…

What could have been in the storage bin to erase images (Ag, Plat, what) in six months. Wonder what those at RIT, CCP, or the Getty could tell us about image permanence and fiber-board outgassing speed of destruction?

And claim of authority, Friends of Photography.

Certainly a purchasing clerk from a hardware/door-store would have access to a customer list.

How much does an unnamed name-drop mean to you?

apparently, only enough to confirm your own opinion of the topic.

the elaboration was more words. even more claims without fundamentals of fact.

How much money would he(you) have to make processing orders to give up a print sale business, one where you sold at a “more pricey venue” than $7-8K per print? What does Truitt & White pay now?

2021 wages. Truitt & White. A Pella window and door store

The Expert:  three key characteristics: competent, qualified, and principled. Citation: Smith, K. (2021). An Expert – Common Key Characteristics. Academia Letters, Article 4181. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL4181. 

One source of prices in SF: 1985 SF auction catalog of photos sells $200- $875 [1985+Winter+Quarterly .pdf]

Bay Area gallery early information: https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=c8q241mq&developer=local&style=oac4&s=1&query=law&x=17&y=5&servlet=view

Overnight: Bots

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, da net, overnight notesTagged ,

Large Format Bots

the blimp that is LFF arrived. Since I can see readers I noted that members of LFF visited. What is most interesting: the number of BOTS that slurped my shores. Of the ~40 visitors, 3 were bots. 

like music in an elevator
there to cover the silence... like picture hung in a lawyers conference room.. unnoticed wall covering
need to associate, seem to be associated so you are elevated among peers.
a method or an image model
bullies welcomed
when they say what you would
when they bully for you
they bully the others

easy when the others are dead
or not here
can't hear
Dye Transfer – excuses
The Enthusiast’s Delight

Names Midweek

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, creativity, minimum daily requirement, on photographers, visual mind

in contrast / counterpoint to :

Adams, White

Les Krims

Duane Michaels

Arthur Tress

Lucas Samaras

Jerry Uelsman

Legacy of Larry Sultan: 
Dru Donovan, 
Jeff Rosenheim, 
Alec Soth & 
Kelly Sultan in conversation
Kelly Sultan
Kelly Sultan is a residential interior designer. She also assisted Larry in the studio and on various shoots. They collaborated on the project Have You Seen Me, 1994. She and Larry were married in 1987 and have two children. She is now the director of his estate. Kelly lives in Greenbrae, California.

Followed by signings with:
Talia Chetrit
Moyra Davey
Roe Ethridge
Nona Faustine
Rosalind Fox Solomon
Paul Graham
Justine Kurland
D'Angelo Lovell Williams
Ahndraya Parlato
Gail Rebhan
-Stephen Shore
-Alec Soth
dr. Sally Stein The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.  

Jameson- end of modernism” FREDRIC JAMESON, in his magisterial work, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), has offered us a particularly influential analysis of our current postmodern condition. Like Jean Baudrillard, whose concept of the simulacrum he adopts, Jameson is highly critical of our current historical situation; indeed, he paints a rather dystopic picture of the present, which he associates, in particular, with a loss of our connection to history. What we are left with is a fascination with the present. According to Jameson, postmodernity has transformed the historical past into a series of emptied-out stylizations (what Jameson terms pastiche) that can then be commodified and consumed. “–https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/postmodernism/modules/jamesonpostmodernity.html