I always try to avoid being unnecessarily overly critical of the photography of other people. Everyone has their vision and who am I to criticize someones art, right? If they ask me for my opinion I certainly provide it without hesitation, and I've had many great and interesting discussions this way and I've learned a lot about myself and my photography along the way.
What I'm being critical of here is American Photo magazine. They recently published their list of "2010 Images of the Year". The image at this link of the blue house was actually selected as an 'Image of the Year'.
Seriously?
For the life of me, I can't find one single redeeming quality in this photo. Thinking that I might be off base and with my curiosity of other people's opinions now piqued, I've showed this photo to many people and they all said the exact same thing, "What's it supposed to be? It's a terrible picture".
I don't know why this annoys me so much, but a blog is about expressing your opinions, so I guess I'm just doing that here. I read American Photo magazine and they always strive to publish high quality content and photos. With so much great photography out there and the thousands of photos that must have been considered in this competition, I guess it just irks me that a photo of the side of the house with a satellite dish and some telephone wires is lauded as an 'Image of the Year'. I can't imagine people sitting around a table saying "That's a great shot....It's an image of the year"!
Come on American Photo. Please filter this stuff out and keep your content at the high quality level that it has been in the past...
this is outrageous and funny. it makes american photo look like a rag to call this a photo of the year. it's the side of a damn house! what a joke.
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