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August 7, 2011
There is a rejection of the decisive moment that is spontaneously “captured” by the documentary photographer, and a comparable distrust in the notion of singular, authentic or original photographic meanings. In its place has arisen ideas about the instability and malleability of photographic meaning.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Adelaide Council Car Park, Franklin St, Adelaide 2011
This is associated with a shift to series that explores a single, often banal idea from many different angles in which processes of repetition and categorization are central. Its aesthetic is based on careful selection, repetition and classification and it can be seen as expression of the larger “archival impulse” that pervades contemporary culture.
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