http://gregwasserstrom.com/blog/archives/43 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:38:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://gregwasserstrom.com/blog/archives/43/comment-page-1#comment-20 greg Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:13:36 +0000 http://gregwasserstrom.com/blog/archives/43#comment-20 A warning from a man who certainly knows photography by way of a woman who certainly knows danger. Thank you for sharing this article, and thanks for reading the blog. A warning from a man who certainly knows photography by way of a woman who certainly knows danger. Thank you for sharing this article, and thanks for reading the blog.

]]> http://gregwasserstrom.com/blog/archives/43/comment-page-1#comment-18 Lisa Gioconda Saint Aubin de Terán Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:10:13 +0000 http://gregwasserstrom.com/blog/archives/43#comment-18 "Now you go to schools like Yale and — [the students] would deny it, but they’re lying — their real ambition is to be stars in the gallery system. And I wouldn’t want those young people to know this, but there is actually a substantial market for new people doing something that might look flashy for a moment, because of the fact that there are, you know, a million new billionaires in this country, and they or their wives want to be on the boards of museums. And you can’t collect Jasper Johns anymore. I mean, forget collecting Matisse or Picasso. You can’t collect Rauschenberg or those people — all the good stuff is already in captivity! So you’ve got to find a new guy." - LA Weekly - TALKING PICTURES John Szarkowski on the good, the bad and the flat in American photography, BY HOLLY MYERS AND TOM CHRISTIE, Wednesday, December 6, 2006 “Now you go to schools like Yale and — [the students] would deny it, but they’re lying — their real ambition is to be stars in the gallery system. And I wouldn’t want those young people to know this, but there is actually a substantial market for new people doing something that might look flashy for a moment, because of the fact that there are, you know, a million new billionaires in this country, and they or their wives want to be on the boards of museums. And you can’t collect Jasper Johns anymore. I mean, forget collecting Matisse or Picasso. You can’t collect Rauschenberg or those people — all the good stuff is already in captivity! So you’ve got to find a new guy.” – LA Weekly – TALKING PICTURES John Szarkowski on the good, the bad and the flat in American photography, BY HOLLY MYERS AND TOM CHRISTIE, Wednesday, December 6, 2006

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