Finally coincided with the combined omnipotence of various artrelated factors such as teachers curators gallerists and art theorists. The fact that I belong to some of these categories does not make me more lenient in my judgments. Greek imitation of the artistic products of the West was and is a common phenomenon and partly logical. So today's Greek photography has to show a complete sample catalog that corresponds to what is produced by foreign photographers and shown through exhibitions and publications. But a key difference is that the West has a rich and safe intellectual and artistic past capable of withstanding any kind of seasonal excess and closing any commercial parenthesis whenever needed.
On the contrary we seduced by the manifest provincialism that succeeded our wellknown e-commerce photo editing and largely justified misery invest with uncritical fanaticism on everything that gives us the illusion that we belong to any avantgarde Our new photographers know a lot more than our old ones they have perhaps even more talent although this is something so vague and unstable that it is better not to touch on it but unfortunately the majority of them are usually driven by nonartistic motives. The passion for photography and the need for creation that accompanied some of the pioneers of Greek photography have given way to the passion for career and the need for any kind of distinction and promotion.
Characteristic that most of our young photographers give more importance to professional rehabilitation earnings fame and social visibility than to their personal engagement with the artistic practice and their improvement through it. But if someone initially chose the artistic field he should not have done so with the above objectives in mind. Because on the one hand these goals are served much more effectively than other professional activities and on the other hand they may be necessary in the case of art but secondary anyway. What we usually observe today with young photographers is that after their first or second qualitative and promising presence in the field they either give up on photography or degrees.
发表于 2022-10-22 16:09:39
