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| P: | Affiche art. Is this it? |
| A: | Cookie Dough? Way too mainstream |
| P: | Aw comeon Albertine what's mainstream? |
| A: | Everything we already know. |
| P: | Already know? |
| A: | If it's being marketed it's mainstream; the emphasis has shifted to the money, the idea has become product. |
| P: | What cars, dvd's fashion things? |
| A: | Anything substantial. We might include paintings and sculpture it's all product. |
| P: | And photographs? |
| A: | Most are simply pictograms for aspirational marketing. |
| P: | All I see are the pictorial patterns and compositions of the past |
| A: | A salon art. |
| P: | A continuation of the nineteenth century |
| A:: | But you can never step into the same river twice, of necessity it is different. |
| P: | Photography can never escape time - even in black and white, the clues are always there. |
| A: | And for the contemporary photographer? |
| P: | The awareness of time passing, of what has gone. |
| A: | Classical photography you mean? |
| P: | Yes the craft has gone, and with it the veracity and transparency of the medium. |
| A: | So you abandon the model of a ninetenth century practice? |
| P: | Yes, anything is possible; remake it anew. . A flag you said, this must be it |