{"id":78,"date":"2006-03-09T12:21:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T17:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/colberg-statements\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T16:31:57","slug":"colberg-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/colberg-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"J&ouml;rg Colberg on artist statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmcolberg.com\">J&ouml;rg Colberg<\/a> wrote an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmcolberg.com\/weblog\/archives\/002007.html\">piece<\/a> on fine art photographers&#8217; artist statements that I couldn&#8217;t possibly agree more with. It begins:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s interesting (and a bit sad) that when you look at what is commonly called fine-art photography it always comes with a statement, which typically contains some sort of explanation or motivation for the photography. You never get to see something like &#8216;I just wanted to take some beautiful photos&#8217;&hellip;&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmcolberg.com\/weblog\/archives\/002007.html\">Continue reading<\/a>, then read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmcolberg.com\/weblog\/archives\/002022.html\">follow-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just going through his site, check out the rest of his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmcolberg.com\/weblog\/\">Conscientious<\/a>, it&#8217;s quite good.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/slowlight.net\/blog\/\">slowlight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J&ouml;rg Colberg wrote an excellent piece on fine art photographers&#8217; artist statements that I couldn&#8217;t possibly agree more with. It begins: &quot;It&#8217;s interesting (and a bit sad) that when you look at what is commonly called fine-art photography it always comes with a statement, which typically contains some sort of explanation or motivation for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[148,870],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-ed","tag-artist-statements","tag-joerg-colberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->