>>4394948
Christ in Piss was a post-modern photograph. Follow the Dusseldorf School of Photography group and then look at the work and writings of Jeff Wall. Then checkout Toshio Shibata and Hiroshi Sugimoto.

But we're past post-modernism. See the work of Edward Burtynsky. He is working like a post-modern landscape photographer but he is trying to find form and shapes within the rot. His work search for deeper metaphysical meaning rather than just saying "hecking climate change and anthropocene".

>>4394948
>Edward Burtynsky
I like his work, he's not a pretentious prick. China set is great. But to be able to show what he's trying to convey drone must be used frequently, which I kinda don't like as this is to me an equivalent of doing YouTuber stuff.

>>4394952
>Piss Christ
> It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine
>"I had no idea Piss Christ would get the attention it did, since I meant neither blasphemy nor offense by it. I've been a Catholic all my life, so I am a follower of Christ.
Lmfao

>>4394959
Kek

Post-modern artists were big on irony

>>4394952
This bullshit is why everyone hates the circlejerk the photography part of the art world became
>le deeper meaning in le rot
>the buildings arent decorated anymore… its over….
They are IDENTICAL to 4chan incels sharing fresh political memes. But they larp as artists by making compilations of snapshits disparately related to their real message, an accompanying pretentious paragraph about how they are cynical and consider themselves intelligent.

If they were actually intelligent they could communicate this bullshit 10000000x more effectively BY PAINTING OR DRAWING. The modern and beyond photographer is a crossbreed between a failed painter and an affluent white liberal slactivist.

Fuck these clowns and shoot portraits. No one cares about photographs without names, no one cares about photographs of nameless places, no one cares about a photographic series of a contrived bias in reality made by a failed painter larping as a concerned intellectual.

>>4394966
immigrant mother and afghan girl are still more influential and in more actual museums than all other photography
it helps that they are the faces of real problems in history instead of building corners representing a trust fund kids clinical depression - and thats the point of photography.

>>4394966
This subhuman HATES PHOTOGRAPHY and shit up every thread with his antiphotography propaganda. This motherfucker is salty because photography FUCKED painting in the ass and made it obsolete.

Fuck off back to >>>/ic/

>>4394959
Interestingly none of them is that edgy when it comes to islam or judaism

It's fucking ironic that these faggots are talking shit about Edward Burtynsky when 4chan's art movement Burgerpunk literally started with ""Breezewood," Pennsylvania, USA, 2008 by Edward Burtynsky"

>>4394968
I love photography, the actual photography that’s grounded in reality, but these failed painters and pseudointellectuals are not artists and they never will be.

Only contrarian pseuds and money laundering swiss and israelis think their work is worth shit. You think a depressed environmentalist national geographic photographer beat painting? Here’s how you can make an original burtynsky:
Open google images
Google "strip mine aerial view" or "chinese pollution"

Of course without his accompanying pseud laments and signature it doesnt hit quite right does it?
>but you just looked for an image that was already there
That’s why so called art photography isnt there and if you’re not telling the untold stories, REAL stories, not conceptual compilations meant yo add weight to an IRL shitpost, you’re not a photographer. You’re a failed painter. Your ego has no place. Photography is about everything but yourself.

Yes, Burtynsky turns the rotten landscapes of the Anthropocene into liminal state between abstraction and concrete. This friction invokes beauty. It embodies the metaphysical symbols of the gargantuan and entropy and the how coherence can emerge from such phenomena.

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>>4394974
lmao

>>4394972
>muh jews
>muh money laundering
Same old shit talking points kek.

>Photography is about everything but yourself.
Fuck you. Photography and reality is whatever I say it is and you're no one to dictate it for me. You want "humanist" photography's sterile photojournalist circlejerks then fine, thousands of photographs get uploaded to the websites of photo agencies and it is by far the most popular form of photography. You're free to consoom that low iq devoid of any style bullshit. I don't care about reality. I am only concerned about how an artist views the world.

>>4394976
Filtered pleb

>>4394977
>i am very cynical and smart and concerned. i am thinking abstractly! i am smart! I AM SMART
Its all they ever say, really. You wouldnt get it maaaaan, you fucking sheep maaaaaaaan.
Alas you are not, taking the "SEE? SEE?" picture for a white guys angsty slactivist rant was never art to begin with. It’s just annoying. Your slop will be buried and the upper echelons of humanism will remain because your slop is entirely replaceable by a stock photo on page 339 in a generic Modern History And Current Events high school text.

>>4394974
that yer moms cunt pic? lol faget

>>4394981
war photographers keep on winning
>the virgin perfectly composed photo of a steel mill taken on a $80000 phase one and published with a bunch of buzzwords
>the chad blurry snapshit of a guy about to clobber a 12 year old palestinian with the butt of his rifle taken on a half dead canon powershot

>>4394984
Just say that you like misery porn because you're a low iq psychopath.

>>4394986
Stock photos of strip mines and highways larping as art aren’t humanist unless you’re willing to admit they belong in the absolute lowest tier.

>>4394987
strictly speaking, the worlds most intelligent and creative people are psychopaths. this is a sad fact you will have to contend with.

>>4394990
You're just too low iq. You need everything in your face to understand something.

Go jerk off to the photos of August Sander, Paul Strand, Walker Evans and hordes and hordes of documentary photographers to scratch the humanist itch deep inside your ass. I'll just contemplate the deeper truth in the landscape.

>the worlds most intelligent and creative people are psychopaths.
A portrait faggot can't live without generalizing. I am not surprised.

>>4394992
>i am smart I AM SMART I AM SMART, I AM SMART ENOUGH TO GET IT, I AM LIKE THE HIGH CULTURE PEOPLE!
Thats all you can say but you’re not smart enough to realize that art is subjective and subjectively there is nothing you need to understand about slacktivist photography like burtynsky other than that he needs to tell you that he’s an environmentalist. Yes, that is all it is. Then disagree and say you think it’s boring photos of a normally progressing earth and bust out your up of tea (make sure you dont spit it out when you’re accused of having no soul by a pallid trust fund kid). The rants about liminal metaphoric narratives are nothing more than advertising targeted at a demographic of 110 IQ white kids with rich parents. They can be applied to ANYTHING, even fe2fuckers photos taken as jokes.
>but his intent was…
French writers already understood the great scam of intent before you were born. What use is intent? None.

This is not art. If it were portraiture it would be generic shots of skinny africans. You have never seen an untold story revealed in your life. You have never seen subjectivity in photography run deeper than is normal for an image with commentary.

This faggot is just incel adams. Well executed photo of land feature taken from a slightly unusual position. Next?

>>4394997
Also you will inevitably say the humans are implied. Obviously. Who are they? Woooooo ask the question oooooooo

But that never made it more clever, just masturbatory. It’s clear to sharper minds that the human in the photograph is the photographer himself.

>>4394997
Burtynsky spawned Burgerpunk >>4394971
This one photograph is enough evidence of his greatness. Not cliche at all. You're a dumb fucking low iq chimp.

The rivers of Babylon flow, twisted and crooked which transform into a fiery wrathful Serpent on his way towards the Night Side of Eden.

>>4395003
>he spawned a gay 4chan meme
Yes he does function like a 4chan memer, its meant to be about society but its actually about his depression. Snore.

>>4395004
Ansel Adams visits a mine to test out color film
1st year poetry students offered a chance to caption the resulting images

Snoooooore

>>4395004
This is a google images result for mine drainage. With a little selective color and a 1 year photography course it could pass for burtynsky doing generic landscape photography around active mines.

Where the easily impressed see deep meaning the clearer eyed see a mid tier rocks and leaves photographer turned environmental slactivist. His photos will doubtlessly become demotivationals in future WEF conference rooms.

>>4395006
You never post any of photography and photographers that you enjoy. Your opinions are worthless. Fucking pussy.

>>4395007
>HE THINKS THAT THIS IMAGE IS SAME AS BURTYNSKY AND SELECTION OF SUBJECT AND ENVIRONMENT AND COMPOSITION MEANS FUCK ALL TO HIM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA these are the low iq chimps that I am dealing with HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I am done holy shit HAHAHAHAHA

>>4395008
I do. Almost 100% fashion.

It’s shame burtyboy never thought to blend art and slactivism instead of rocks and leaves and slactivism. Some humans, vague humans, and a lack of total sharpness conveying some actual meaning might actually set him apart from ansel "boring” adams in ways other than running towards the tailings pit instead of away from it. It’s just groupe f64 getting more jaded. More like groupe f sixty snore. There are more compelling photographs taken at rodeos.

>>4395010
>I do. Almost 100% fashion.
Post some names and photographs, pussy.

>>4395009
>im so smaaaaart!
and yet you continuously reference a test designed solely to evaluate the ability of a child to conform to a prussian style education. curious

>>4395012
>prussian style education
Yeah, don't poke me or I'll start shilling German landscape photography. Lately, I have been consooming lots of German photography.

>>4395011
If you got the trailing reference you’d already know the list, kid.

You just got postmoderned on.

>>4395014
Pussy

>>4395015
>the high and mighty intellectual reduced to misogynistic insults
Heh

Typical straight photography fan. I guess you just aren’t smart enough to get it.

Food for thought: Burtynsky is a mainstream photographer tackling a mainstream issue in a well established style that has pervaded dentists waiting rooms for a century.

>>4395017
Post names and photos, my dear gay and ef/fa/y artist.

>>4395021
Then post the photographers and photos that you like fucking coward.

>>4395023
>loses the philosophical argument and begins aggressively demanding a dick measuring contest
on principle, check out isi’s photobook Truth and then jump off a pier

>>4395026
What philosophical argument? You are a low iq chimp. This >>4395007 is your argument. You shouldn't kill yourself, must bear a 100 years embarrassing of just being (You)

>>4395027
>continues rambling about /pol/ tier intelligence tests and then totally loses the ability to construct a coherent sentence
Ansel Adams running towards his dads industry connections instead of away is not particular innovative and is profoundly poor in meaning. He is a slactivist that takes generic overcooked photos for nat geo’s climate change articles. So many creative tools at his disposal and he’s literally just ansel adams at the landfill.

>>4395029
Incel Adams was a subhuman. Pictorialists killed faggot/69, I don't like them. Stop projecting. I like all types of photography.

>>4395032
And yet when he switches subjects to artificial rivers he’s an artistic giant?

>>4395034
No, because incel isn't the Godfather of landscape. What Burtynsky is doing has deep roots in 19th century american landscape photography. But of course true giants came in 19th century.

>>4395035
No matter how you can describe it, he doesn’t cease to be generic and old hat.

>>4395037
According to you yes. But I don't care about your opinion of him. I'll keep enjoying his work.

>>4394972
>photography that’s grounded in reality
who is gonna tell xer

>>4395038
>i’ll keep enjoying political nat geo covers
group f6snore

>>4395043
>political
That's your interpretation not mine.
>nat geo covers
I don't care. Whatever art I like is the greatest art of all time.

>>4395045
My first interpretation was a bored survey worker or inspector playing around in photoshop.

It turned out to be another flickr landscape gearfag: conservationist bux edition playing around with LF film and MF digital from helicopters (yes, my first thought was drone photos and company issue DSLRs) and political is the interpretation he himself inists upon. And yet the photos insist upon themselves very little.

>>4395046
ok

>guy who just learnt about burtynsky yesterday
Getting real Burtynsky vibes from this one...

>>4395231
buttdicksky has been a mainstream nat geo photographer in the landscape equivalent of the skinny african kids segment for 20 years you pleb

>>4394966
More generally, any retard who can't express themselves on philosophical matters through the direct lens of text should not be taken seriously.
They have ruined ALL artforms and mediums with their psychopathic faggotry.

>>4394971
I've been wanting to remake this photo for years since I'm not far but I really don't want to bother anyone there.