What about this business of people becoming instant photographers?




19 Dec 2013

Greg Barrett

Yes. I think it's pretty terrible, actually.

Margaret Throsby

Why is that?

Greg Barrett

Nobody is really looking. They are taking shots, but there is no kind of time to ... I am not being fuddy-duddy about it, but I just think its almost like a substitute for the experience itself. It's fine to record some of it you can.

If you go into MoMA in NY. Everybody is standing in front of the Jackson Pollock. There is the Jackson Pollock. Back of the head, there is looking at the Jackson Pollock and they are looking out or taking shots of itself and everything. It's just ... quite odd.

Midday interview 6th Nov 2013