claytoncubitt:

(and Part II.

Note: I actually quite like his work. And I don’t give a shit about the controversy surrounding his digital manipulation, or even his hypocrisy, but reading his tedious clusterfuck of squid-ink artspeak non-explaining the affair made me want to gouge my own brain out. Try to survive this:

“These photographs are no more commentaries than observations. They are meta-photographs.
They deploy the metaphor of struggle between poetic failure and the promise of success to suggest a place uncertain of its future.
However, as Peggy J. Bowers correctly argues, metaphors are closer to fiction than reality, thus inviting a line of questioning at odds with Journalism’s preferred figure of speech: the metonymy.”

I’m sorry for all the suicides I just caused by quoting that. But at least they’ve gone on to a better place.)

Aaargh, my eyes. Srsly.