A photographic imagination

Street life
Adam Gopnick, The New Yokrer

We see New York, and sometimes, as Henry James asked us to, we “do it”—explore and conquer it—but what we see when we see it is so far unlike what we experience when we’re doing it that the difference itself can become a subject for art. The city sneaks up on us in pictures, and we are startled to see what it looks like even when what it looks like is just us, doing what we really do. We respond to truthful depictions of New York with the same surprise that we feel when we hear a recording of our own voice.

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To be honest, I am not impressed with the photos. The language of the article surpasses the visual work as something that is interesting and worth pondering. I has the same feeling when I saw Alec Soth's work. If mediocore can get this much attention I have a shot.