Is Neil Postman correct about the best photography being in television ads? Excerpt from "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
>>4531897He's right. Photography was made obsolete by film as an artform. It's old and busted these days
>>4531897>dog hair on book page
Photography in question.
>>4531916that's a pencil trace
>>4531927Kek, rape-futed
>>4531897Because advertisements are such a short-form format, they can only get their points across with very little time and information - which means that you *need* to be experienced and focused at what you're creating with your ad, or it won't even grab people's attention.There's art, where you merely hope that people think a certain way - then there's advertising, where you already KNOW how people think and your job is to secure a return investment.
>>4531897An old book. Commercials nowadays are the real version of a Stonetoss punchline. See Jaguar, Bud Light, etc. Commercials no longer have the primary task of selling a product but to sell degenerate ideology while pretending to sell the product being used as an excuse to play it.
>>4531897Product photography and advertising have often produced high-quality images, that's for sure. But what do the images say or mean? That's a more difficult question. >>4532048ads have always sold a lifestyle gramps, stop listening to so many podcasts and read a book.
>>4532048Yep, the whole argument is> Haha isn't it funny how the best art is at the service of corporate America. That's kinda Based, amirite fellow Americans?While Americana isn't the same any more.
>>4532061They used to reinforce a lifestyle, now they actively astroturf one. To be fair jews always did but it wasn't as prevalent as today and it targeted sectors ( (((Bernays))) convincing feminists to pick up smoking)
>>4532062To be fair the book is 41 years old so it's only natural that cherrypicked passages aged like Angourie Rice
>>4532066Hey it's better to age like Angourie Rice than like Emma Watson
