Title: Negative Killer
Completing my "fun with modern art" trifecta, I saw this display. I'm not really sure how I feel about it, because in essence I think that projecting photographs is good and I generally appreciate anytime a photographer gets featured in a museum. Conversely, I'm not sure I can count Mr. Buckingham as a photographer, because most photographers that I know (not mixed-media artist mind you), wouldn't create an exhibit which sole purpose is to destroy the photograph over time.
Basically, Mr. Buckingham took a photo of a man on horse (via slide film) and placed it into a slide projector. That's been on for nearly 10 years now, with the purpose of using the light (which is quite strong) to slowly destroy the image. When I saw the exhibit, the image is nearly impossible to identify.
I'm not really going to say one way or another whether this is "art" or not (or perhaps it started as art and has now changed). I'll leave that judgment to each viewer, but I will say, sometimes a horse is just a horse. Even when its not.
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