{"id":299,"date":"2008-06-08T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-06-08T02:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T02:19:00","slug":"new-yorkprohibited-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/new-yorkprohibited-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Prohibited Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/robberbarons.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/robberbarons.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mossonline.com\/event-exec\/display\/events_200805-robberBaron\"target=\"_blank\">Robber Barons by Studio Job<\/a>&#8211;corporate greed in bronze (digital)<\/p>\n<p>One of the primary purposes of this journal is to chart my course through the city&#8211;and elsewhere&#8211;and comment, where appropriate, on the things I see,  neighborhoods I walk through, architecture I encounter, exhibits I visit. Sometimes I go out with my 4&#215;5 view camera, and take snapshots with my digital camera on the side&#8211;a sort of comment on my own activity. Other times I just shoot off the cuff with the digital camera, going back, to some extent, to the 35mm street photography style of my student days.<\/p>\n<p>The world I perambulate is becoming less and less a free space for visual commentary&#8211;meaning photography is forbidden. It&#8217;s an insidious incremental crimping of the public domain, and there are now all sorts of places that are ambiguous public\/private  zones where  various kinds of behavior and speech can be regulated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/taxidermy.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/taxidermy.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Taxidermy by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melissadixson.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Melissa Dixson<\/a>, wall paper by the Timorous Beasties (digital)<\/p>\n<p>The pictures above was taken in Moss, an extraordinary design store in Soho that is as much gallery as shop. In fact, the current work on display featuring Dutch artist-designers was funded by the government of the Netherlands. Much of the work shown is political in nature, and like most political art, it is consigned to a gallery world populated primarily by supposedly high-minded wealthy individuals. The display above juxtaposes a grouping of idealized stuffed foxes cavorting against a wallpaper background created by the Timorous Beasties depicting &#8220;victory&#8221; in the Iraq war with bloody drips and splotches. To the victor the spoils.<\/p>\n<p>After casually taking the preceding photos, I was informed by the shop staff that photography was not allowed. This being a private business, I quickly acceded to their demand, but I did ask the sales person, why? As is so often the case, she didn&#8217;t actually know.  There may, in fact, be a good reason&#8211;at least from the shop&#8217;s point of view&#8211;but from my position as a blogger, a photographer, a (granted) self-appointed visual critic, my intentions have been stifled.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on to the &#8220;public&#8221; library&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robber Barons by Studio Job&#8211;corporate greed in bronze (digital) One of the primary purposes of this journal is to chart my course through the city&#8211;and elsewhere&#8211;and comment, where appropriate, on the things I see, neighborhoods I walk through, architecture I encounter, exhibits I visit. 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