post modem .. just past the library
Richard Berger, dead:
http://www.rbsculpture.com/to-all-artists-known-and-unknown.html …
I wouldn’t have graduated from SFAI without him. He cared & understood.
In 73, after the photography department failed me, he suggested I switch to sculpture, where, he assured me, I’d be understood.
Artists weren’t meant to be confined by their art.
Drawing is the first writing
Drawing is the discovery of symbols
It takes at least 2 generations for a technology to become creative; compatible with the visual mind
Technology of drawing changes, yet drawing grows stronger, is able to adapt faster than the needs of other art forms
Art requires technology take a human form, become compatible, first with the artist, then the other.
The paper is never empty, the canvas never blank
Drawing is evolving into purely mental activity.
Back in the time of unphotography, when monochrome ruled the world, before MOMA anointed color, a few photographers who worked in color, formed a loose grouping under the banner: “Photographers of Color.” We meant it directly, while certainly understanding that since all of us were (are) white, it meant more. Most things mean more, particularly over time, and in different times.
The banner was our umbrella against the rain of silver shooters. The primary intention was that we were regarded as doing work with less aesthetic value — we would have two struggles. None of us worried, nor did we ever make a splash, not so much as a puddle on the broadway of photography
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