Cameraphone images of Phil Barcio
By Jason Moriber • Jun 18th, 2008 • Category: Eye CandyOn the heels of our “Briefs” post yesterday (pleads for uncommon imagery) which asks the question “what is a good image and how do you make it” (and more importantly then how do you sell it) as Rob Haggart muses:
If there is one formula to making great images we haven’t found it from any artist, ever, as one artist’s great images become past-tense while the world seeks something new or fresh (or re-hashed, or re-branded). Artists have to keep moving, keep inventing, as an old professor of mine used to say, “you can only make that type of painting once, then you need to do something different.”
If there is a current trend, or current trends, the definition of great images fluctuates between the North/South poles of Fantasy and Documentary, and the East/West of Craft and Found. (I think we’ll make a chart later this week). This seeking to define good is reminiscent of the mid-90’s post-modern arguments, pointing to the end of all definitions in a multi-faceted world, that beauty was in the eye of the beholder(s), and there were millions of different beholders; you had to pick your audience or at least be aware of them.
This gives us an idea for a new series that investigates this charting of good images, and we’ll start with these “Found” and “rough-Crafted” images of artist Phil Barcio. What makes these images good to us are the subject matter and the context. He defines them as “important messages” that are left for an unknown audience. Consider them rudimentary blog-posts, or bottled messages seeking new shores. They are taken with his phone-camera on the fly on his day-job rounds as a realtor. Click the image below to view the portfolio.
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