It is nothing new that the photograph is a “commodified symbol of desire that can be easily altered to control belief, experience, and communication.” And yes, it is hard to argue with the claims P. Seth Thompson makes in his artist statement concerning the power of the image in shaping ideology and our current “era where objective reasoning is overshadowed by ‘alternative facts.’”...
This is pluralism of a sort, although it omits not only the scrappy gallery-unfriendly side of artistic practice but also a great deal of work that has not yet acquired a collector base....
P. Seth Thompson: The Self Made Man (Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent as Superman), 2013, archival pigment print.
After more than a century of electric technol...
