Douglas McCulloh
[Photographer, b. 1959, Los Angeles, lives in Los Angeles.]
Images are the currency of our age, but it’s a toss-up whether we live in a time of abundance or debasement.
Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to subject. The ironic goal is a scrupulous recording of whatever chance brings to hand.
You may not be interested in photography, but photography is interested in you.
Is there not much greater photographic power in posing questions than providing answers?
We live within an ever-deepening strata of visual iconography, sharing shifting signifiers up and down the layers of our lives. Eventually, we mistake abundance for vision. We become blind to our own blindness.
