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Recently the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art brought together 13 experts in the field to grapple with the question "Is Photography Over?"
Despite its taking place in SFMOMA's auditorium, well-equipped to project images in any medium, no symposium participant showed a single picture. Scores of them hang upstairs (through June 27) in "The View From Here," the museum's 75th-anniversary survey of California photography.
The reasonable presumption seemed to be that everyone in the audience has seen and snapped, and perhaps even printed, so many photographs that no precise reference points were needed.
Read more: HERE
Perhaps it might have been more appropriate if SFMOMA had entitled their symposium 'Are photography experts over photography?' How ridiculous! I reckon it's fairly safe to assume that there hasn't been much new in sex for many, many millenia (bar the incorporation of some novel accessories) but I can't imagine anyone running a symposium 'Is sex over?' I suspect the title was deliberately provacative and laid the ground for the 'experts' to be perceived as experts. Unfortunately, the original texts are no longer available but, nonetheless, I'll put my money on the millions who regularly practise photography rather than a handful of wankers.
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