Comments on: Where are the great pictures on Flickr?

By: kh

kh — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:21:05 +0000

arrived here via kottke – interesting discussion.
flickr can be infuriating, it can also be inspiring, sometimes both at the same time.

i have +9500 favorites at flickr, without kids or cats in the mix, so i’d say at least a few people are doing something right over there

By: peter

peter — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:06:12 +0000

“It was just thousands of pieces of shit, and I just couldn’t believe it. And it’s just all conventional, it’s all cliches, it’s just one visual convention after another.”

This is a description for photo.net and other photo critique sites, not flickr. If you look hard enough you’ll find some very good stuff in flickr.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:21:39 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkshapesprowl/

By: Joel Wanek

Joel Wanek — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:27:49 +0000

Greetings Alex,

First of all let me say thanks
for your blog. Its a great source of
information, ideas and dialogue. I use it
and refer my students to it often.

In response to your post above, I’d like to
direct you to some of my work. Its a series
of portraits I made on the streets of Chicago
in collaboration with strangers. They took
my picture and I took theirs. The shots
were superimposed in the camera.

I was working towards fusing two disparate
influences: the emotionally cool & formally
daring Institute of Design photographers, and
the humanistic portraiture that was popularized
by Doubletake Magazine in the ’90s. I also
was trying to discover how to use the camera
in a new way.

Anyway, I’d love to hear what you and others
think. Please see the link below to my Flickr
account and the series I’m referring to is called
“Intersections, 1999-2001″

http://tinyurl.com/2kbd9a (link to my Flickr site)

Joel Wanek

By: Bill Haley

Bill Haley — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:03:49 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/riickye/

By: Steve Murray

Steve Murray — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:05:21 +0000

Stephen Shore’s comment could also be an unconscious reaction to the fact that modern fine art photography is so similar to the random images done by ordinary people that the difference between them is essentially non-existent! Just look at all the web pages of the “art photographers” around the world. Is this stuff any different from what you see just randomly on Flickr? Blow any one of them up large, put in a nice frame and hang in a gallery and you have art as fine as anything else you see there. The “fine art photographer” should be threatened by this stuff.

By: sylvia

sylvia — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:43:09 +0000

flickr: a place where averageness is applauded and uncommonness is despised.

By: trekbody

trekbody — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:55:53 +0000

My hero on flickr – brings me back to Brooklyn and captures NY and surrounds like nobody I have seen.

http://flickr.com/photos/franklynch/

By: Adam Fields

Adam Fields — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:26:40 +0000

I guess the question is “what do you consider great photography, anyway?”.

By: Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:11:37 +0000

Go through your contacts and find the people who’s shots you really admire.

Then go through their contacts and see who they’re watching. I never go to Explore and rarely use groups but the Contacts section is like a giant personal recommendation tool.

You can feel free to use mine as a jumping off point if you don’t have a lot of contacts on your own yet… http://flickr.com/people/rycoleman/contacts/

*Mute, Pisco Bandidto, PatsPiks, wvs, & Mark Velasquez are good people to start with…