Thursday 12

Four members from the Yerba Buena Chapter sat down on August 21st 1993 to discuss contemporary photography. Issues including weather or not "contemporary" is an appropriate name, and weather or not contemporary photography should be judged in its own category were addressed. In the 65 member audience , more than three fourths of the people agreed that the term contemporary is not the best choice. Phrases including imaginative, manipulative, and stimulating the mind were all thrown up into the air for discussion on which should become the new contemporary.

"How the end products are achieved is not as important, as the final results. The picture itself, is the bottom line; it's the end result that counts, not the manner in which it's achieved. To this there were resounding seconds." Often judges claim they don't understand an image and for that reason they don't even consider the photograph. It's important to notify the judges of the term's actual meaning before the judging occurs. A better understanding is necessary for contemporary photography.

My series that i've created this year without a doubt can be catagorized as contemporary. With my abstract shapes and fluid lines, my subject matter is usually questioned. I feel that a lot of times my work is dismissed becuase the prints seem to have no content at first glance. Way wrong!

Cox Fran. "Contemporary photography-on-going debate over what constitutes 'contemporary' photography". FindArticles. March 1994. 28 April 2009. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1306/is_n3_v60/ai_14949850/.