Living in Hell

April 26th, 2006

Catching up on some reading this morning I came across an article in the Royal Photographic Society magazine (the Dec05/Jan06 edition) about the show of Tom Hunter’s work referencing Old Master Paintings at the National Gallery.

I was drawn to the article because I recognised one of the photographs ‘Woman reading possession order’, but couldn’t remember where from. Still can’t, but that’s not the point.

I am just pleased to read that through this show the National Gallery’s curator of contemporary art, Colin Wiggins, began to build up critical faculties to look at a photograph and see what is good without having technical understanding of photography, in the same way he might judge a painting.

Given that photography is a relatively new art form – it’s only been around 170 years or so, that’s no bad thing. Neither is the National Gallery showing a photographic exhibition.
 

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