Artforum International, January 1st, 2004
I begin with an admission of animosity: As long as I have been aware of it, I have been prejudiced against the big photograph. Some of the reasons for my bias are personal. I tend to be drawn to the quieter, domestic-inflected nuance of the lower genres, the lesser media, the small statement, and the quirky, offbeat artist who doesn't fit within the major categories and heroic lineages. I tend to feel some remove from, if not an upwelling of sheer contrariety in the face of, the herculean and the grandiose, the large-scale enterprise of playing ball with the Olympian big boys. Others of my r...
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