Response to My current fetish: Michel Comte

As I've talked about a lot in the Philosophy of Photography forum, art can't speak for itself. Just because you know what you are trying to say and the model knows what you are trying to say, doesn't mean that your message will get across. Once you disseminate it, it will be interpreted (and appropriated) in ways you can't predict. The only answer is to use your position as the creator of the work to publicise your view of it. In other words, if your art is political, you have to be political. That is particularly important in ironic imagery - where it is easy to have your message mistaken for its exact opposite! I'll post a reading of these Comte pictures that shows what I mean.

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