New Criterion: Future tense, IX - Out of the wilderness.
“To generalize my argument regarding the importance of the transcendental goods, I believe that when artists do not have coherent ideals of beauty, their work tends to be sterile; when they do not have coherent ideals of the good, their work tends to be vulgar. Without either beauty or the good, their work tends to be shallow. Artistic accomplishment that is sterile, vulgar, and shallow does not endure.” This is my problem with most photography today. Sterile and shallow. An assistant of mine used to scream at bad artworks, “But what does it MEAN?” I get it now, now that we’re buried in works that don’t even rate on a scale of mediocrity. [This slap is aimed at myself, as well.]
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