A photographic imagination

"Whatever you spend your time and money doing," said News-Press managing editor Mackenzie Warren, "is news" and when Martin Parr or Brian Urlichor Luc Delahaye photograph it , it is art.

I have been stuck on how these two ideas (in the three seperate posts) relate to each other.

Photography and blogs uses push botton solutions to simplify complex technical processes.

Curation influences: a blog post on a newspaper site makes it "news". A photograph on a gallery wall makes it "art".

"Hyper local "is niche in both the contemporaty gallery scene and street by street coverage.

Blogging and photography in practice are very plastic and elastic. The more widely distributed the tools become, the more pedestrian the output is. A "snapshot aesthetic" takes hold.

This quote for Sontag's On Photography

From its start, photography implied the capture of the largest possible number of subjects. Painting never had so imperial a scope. The subsequent industrialization of camera technology only carried out a promise inherent in photography from its very beginning: to democratize all experiences by translating them into images.

could easily be written as this

From its start, blogging implied the capture of the largest possible number of subjects. Journalism never had so imperial a scope. The subsequent industrialization of web publishing technology only carried out a promise inherent in the internet from its very beginning: to democratize all experiences by translating them into readable pages.

Or have I had too much coffee agian this morning?