I think though his audience is a lot smaller than he thinks it is . . . one of course wants to make art that is accessible to those who do not live and breath this stuff, who do not spend their lives looking at art, and trying to figure out how it all works; BUT, the people who are going to be looking at your art the hardest, giving your work the most time, ARE, for the most part, the people who HAVE “read Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Marcuse or Luhmann”

“Think of Koudelka or Pinkhassov. They are prolific photographers. Photography is fundamentally about creating imagery, not reading philosophy or art theory. Sorry to break the news.”

This is very short sighted. if you are making stupid pictures, i mean literally stupid, uneducated pictures, mass -producing your stupidity will not solve the problem.

Of course there is a balance, you need to live in the world, but you also need to think, and listen to those people (read), those who have struggled with the issues and problems that you encounter when you make pictures.