workshop 4th (make up for the second one) Sidney Mishkin Gallery

Soobin certainly visited Sidney Mishkin Gallery and write pretty positive about Milt Hinton’s art, namely, his photographs. But I somehow want to downplay the values of them in that I find them too down-to-earth and not aesthetically beautiful. George Eliot once art says should be realistic, serving also the common and those who in the dark. I favor the dangerous but seductive ideas proposed by Oscar Wilde that holds art is useless and maybe immoral. Hinton photo are realistic and maybe even morally right but not beautiful in a way  they mostly depict the struggles of music artists , uplift us but lack the very sense of beauty. In addition, they are also not so colorful  (I know I should blame this for the lack of technology advancement at that time) that they rarely linger on in my memory. But when I juxtapose them with the photos of a young Jodie Foster, I must confess to the fact that what is idealistic and perfect endure in my mind longer than what is some ugly but realistic. While she is not as pretty as she used to be, her young and glamorous beauty as an object to be observed like a nymph does give a strong impression on me and others , solely for she was beautiful. The contents of a photo are much more important than the technique it is taken in determining the value of it. I do not want to be provocative to photographers. But in light of the fact photo do not need as much photographers as objects, especially in the Age of Technology those days ; I favor the ostensive beauty of the photos of a young Jodie Foster