Richard Billingham: Love him or detest the very fibres of his being?

Richard Billingham, Love him or hate him?

  • Love him

    Votes: 6 85.7%

  • Hate him, want to kill him, no HDR? He must die!

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • Total voters
    7
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Nothing to do with the bags that tell everyone we are a fancy pants photographer, that was a Mr M Billingham.

I'm talking about the guy that photographed his family.

There's alchoholism and tattoos so plenty to hate eh guys?
 
Again, no middle ground option?

I think his pictures are a poor excuse for 'art' - and it's completely ironic that he chose to shoot raw and cheap and dirty, only to end up in some very fancy-nancy galleries.
 
I would choose hate, but then you stuck HDR in that option, and I hate that more.
 
Doesn't do anything for me, but "hate" should be reserved for HDR and or over-photoshopped monstrosities. This is a modern manifestation of the old "crushed fag packet in a muddy puddle" school of photography - it resurfaces every few years
Alcoholism is a vile disease that strikes all strata of society, I certainly hate the disease, but not the sufferer from it - as for tattoos, I personally don't like "tramp stamps", but if people want them, absolutely fine - again "hate" is the wrong word
 
Troll thread.
 
Pookeyhead said:
Troll thread.
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Agree. Haven't we just done the whole photography, art, getting it/not getting it, getting upset at being told not getting it, what is crap, what is art, what is anything, why are we here etc,.. thing.
 
ernesto said:
Agree. Haven't we just done the whole photography, art, getting it/not getting it, getting upset at being told not getting it, what is crap, what is art, what is anything, why are we here etc,.. thing.
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Yse.. just replace Billingham with Parr.... same deal, and it will be the same thread all over again.
 
Pookeyhead said:
Yse.. just replace Billingham with Parr.... same deal, and it will be the same thread all over again.
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Just replace Billimgham/Parr with any artist, athlete, politician, etc, and you'll have the same arguments.
 
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