Three Seconds of Pleasant Geometry
“Thinking too much” (AKA thinking) is looked down on more and more this era of snap judgement. Amid national and global emergencies real and imagined, cascades of memes rising and falling each second at speeds previously unimaginable, few have time for reasoned analysis, the benefits of which are falling by the wayside in the rush to dominate the lofty peaks of comments sections. Just as social media gave a false impression of vitality to photography, so has it also created a disingenuous impression of what “good” photography is, and the flying buttresses of this construction can be seen in the contests, promotions, Internet listicles, and features of the day.
The joys of our short attention spans. Art has become a means to an end, not the end itself. Now art is used primarily as a means of attracting attention with the side benefit of creating something nice. Such a weird dynamic that has evolved in culture around art.
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