{"id":137,"date":"2017-08-25T12:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2017-09-12T13:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:21:07","slug":"photographing-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/2017\/08\/25\/photographing-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing graffiti has a long history in photography. It brings the usually anonymous wall markings to a broader consciousness, serving as \u201can equivalent of oral history \u2013 retrieving scraps of ordinary lives\u201d. (Max Kozloff, in The Restless Decade \u2013 John Guttmann\u2019s Photographs of the Thirties) These days, not all graffiti artists are completely anonymous \u2013 we\u2019ve come a long way from Kilroy to Banksy! There are fans who could tell who made the stencil graffiti seen in my image of the laughing grenade, and probably the sprayed tag partly layered with it. Same with the digits in 10.<\/p>\n<p>So \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/urban-imagining\/\">what am I doing here<\/a>? Why take a picture of someone else\u2019s art? Some will see it as appropriation \u2013 I\u2019m not part of the graffiti culture, and understand very little of it. I prefer to think of it as sampling, more common now in music than in visual art. That\u2019s why I framed it as I did \u2013 having the grenade and the tag both bursting out of the frame, showing only the top of the 10. I\u2019ve made the images my own, and suggest the uncontrolled nature of the originals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing graffiti has a long history in photography. It brings the usually anonymous wall markings to a broader consciousness, serving as \u201can equivalent of oral history \u2013 retrieving scraps of ordinary lives\u201d. (Max Kozloff, in The Restless Decade \u2013 John Guttmann\u2019s Photographs of the Thirties) These days, not all graffiti artists are completely anonymous \u2013 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/2017\/08\/25\/photographing-graffiti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photographing graffiti&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,23,10,21,22,20,11,25,24,27],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pixsilver-photography-thoughts","tag-anonymous","tag-appropriation","tag-art","tag-banksy","tag-culture","tag-graffiti","tag-photography","tag-respect","tag-sampling","tag-uncontrolled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixsilver.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}