If Mr. Farago’s point – stagnation? Hell yeah. But will the art world admit its role? No.
If you think that social and technical development in the last 20 years, have flipped just about every profession, including art, and if it wasn’t flipped, it was just left behind or run over. Many of us work, all along, doing other things connected to the world and life in general. Certainly not concepts nor over-evaluations.
You can still find an art of experience in some art galleries still. But with all the changes there’s a lot outside art that has, if not answers, a nice fit.
Apodaca—who was living in an RV without running water when the video went viral—money made from his video reached over 10k and Ocean Spray bought him a new pick-up truck, and listen to this, he tried selling an NFT of the video for 500k. the proceeds to buy his parents a house, among other plans.
A negative turned positive in an act of culture in action.
Shooting this at rush hour when the sun rises directly down 165th, involves a lot of dodging and dancing to shoot on the center line. While shooting these subway cars moving along i saw, in the finder, a figure. The question became did i nail it?
If you think that I am kidding, check out this guy’s work because, although I don’t like the term, or an exploration has reached the highest levels of fine art photography.