{"id":374,"date":"2009-03-20T19:39:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T09:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2009-03-20T19:39:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T09:39:24","slug":"25000-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/25000-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"$25,000 for this???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portrait.gov.au\/exhibit\/nppp2\/images\/photos\/large\/17.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">(click here)<\/a> is this years winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portrait.gov.au\/site\/NPPP2009_9.php\">Australian National Portrait prize. <\/a>I ask you to have a look at the rest of the gallery, and someone please explain why that photo is the rightful winner over shots like David Sandlson&#8217;s shot of Len Green or John Cann and his father by Hugh Stewart? I will take part of a rant I put on one internet forum and plonk it in here to give you some idea of how I am thinking.<\/p>\n<p><em>With regards to your opening sentence N, me being the proud little philistine that I am, I have to ask. Do you wonder why people the likes of my good self think that the art fraternity are a bunch of pretentious #$@&#038;! when photos like the one I linked to above, win a prize worth $25,000, when the good majority of people think it is a steaming pile of #*!%? There are so many other entries in the comp that are so much better, and not just in my eyes, in every single person I have asked today. Whilst ever the chardy sipping tools are saying that is the best photo and the rest of us don&#8217;t understand why, art will never make inroads imho.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Really, I don&#8217;t understand it. Can some explain? I always thought portraits where supposed to engage the subject. Make a connection. Maybe it is why I cant take a portrait to save myself! To me, that photo is no more than a family snap shot. No offence meant to the photographer, I hope he enjoys the $25k.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This (click here) is this years winner of the Australian National Portrait prize. I ask you to have a look at the rest of the gallery, and someone please explain why that photo is the rightful winner over shots like David Sandlson&#8217;s shot of Len Green or John Cann and his father by Hugh Stewart? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[93,840,877],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-starter","tag-art","tag-photography","tag-portrait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-62","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}