Tag Archives: Paul Graham

One off: John Smith’s “The Girl With Chewing Gum”, 1976

July 5, 2012

                  John Smith, The Girl With Chewing Gum, 1976.

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Harvey on commodification

October 19, 2011

“Quality of urban life has become a commodity, as has the city itself, in a world where consumerism, tourism, cultural and knowledge-based industries have become major aspects of the urban political economy. The postmodernist penchant for encouraging the formation of… Continue reading →

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Graham on Papageorge

October 6, 2011

“Such art photography – and lets face it, making images of life as it happens, lays at the very core of the medium – is regrettably viewed with suspicion in the art world. Misunderstood as a collection of lucky moments,… Continue reading →

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Graham on Photography

August 4, 2011

“perhaps we can agree that through force of vision these artists strive to pierce the opaque threshold of the now, to express something of the thus and so of life at the point they recognised it. They struggle through photography… Continue reading →

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