An excellent observation on the part of Mr. Lanham. That's the culture of advertising. Grab them and don't let go. It's my stock in trade. Paul (University of Chicago, MA '73)
On Feb 29, 2008, at 10:54 PM, Bong Manayon wrote: > I agree...and its not really confined to photos, wine or the American > culture either. I'm going through a book by Richard Lanham (Economics > of Attention, Univ of Chicago Press) where in the IT age, the > commodity is not information (we have too much of it) but attention. > So whether in the media, politics or religion, "truth" may ultimately > be defined by those who can get or control people's attention... > > ...and the new priesthood is Google (if it is not yet the god of > this age)... > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Mark Erickson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bruce, >> >> This larger trend is also reflected in the U.S. wine industry. >> The "Robert >> Parker" scale is really to blame. Parker tastes zillions of >> wines each >> year, so each wine has just a few seconds to make an impression. >> If it is >> subtle rather than big, and not "hot" (high in alcohol), it >> doesn't get a >> high (90+) score. I think that photo.net has exactly the same >> problem. >> Delicate, subtle images just don't have a big immediate impact, >> so they get >> overlooked. >> >> Probably comes with the short attention span endemic to American >> culture >> these days, too.... >> >> --Mark >> >> >> Bruce Dayton wrote: >>> >>> [cut, snip] >>> >>> In some respects, this seems to be following a larger trend. One in >>> which art is transcending photography. Try looking at all the >>> photos >>> on photo.net galleries based on popularity. Almost all the shots >>> are >>> soooo dramatic that they just don't hardly look like our planet - >>> even people shots have heavy doctoring of lighting. Extreme skies >>> and wild, saturated colors are the norm these days - even though >>> where I live, I see that kind of thing maybe once every few >>> years. I >>> seem to be rambling...must be one of those days. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Bruce >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly >> above and follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Bong Manayon > http://www.bong.uni.cc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
