Do Blue-Chip Photographers Prop up Global Capitalism? In his recent manifesto, Jörg Colberg takes aim at three prominent photographers for their “visual propaganda.” via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/do-blue-chip-photographers-prop-up-global-capitalism/ That said, what are the “identical” mechanisms Colberg suggests that link these artists to their socialist-realist predecessors? Leibovitz, Crewdson, and Gursky produce a kind of capitalist propaganda that, like … Continue reading Do Blue-Chip Photographers Prop up Global Capitalism?