A series of interesting articles on “photographic meaning” is now available from LACMA’s excellent photo blog “words without pictures” — this one from last November: Qualifying Photography as Art, or, Is Photography All It Can Be? by CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD mentions critic Michael Fried, whose upcoming book “Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before” (Yale University Press) critiques art photography since the Bechers. The most recent “words w/out pictures” article is on photo repetition; A Picture You Already Know by SZE TSUNG LEONG.Â
