I think it's interesting that no one has mentioned photography yet. Perhaps photography isn't "art" enough to make it as someone's favorite piece of art. Indeed, I'm not sure if any photos are even in my top ten. But at the same time, I spend way way more time with photography than I do other art. Conventional art, for all intents and purposes, plays almost no roll in my life. Photography is a mistress I can't break. That sounds pratentious but it does a good job showing how I feal about photography. In love with it, obsessed with it, embarressed about it, defensive of it, and of course pretentious as shit.

My favorite photographers lately are cindy sherman and sally mann. Here are some favorites, and classics:

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(About the last one from Untitled Film Stills:  Cindy Sherman was twenty-three years old when she began making
these pictures in 1977... She stopped, she has explained, when
she ran out of cliches.)

posted by john owens-ream   [8:01 PM]

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