Digital Home Thoughts: Boring Photographs, Is There Such A Thing?

"One of the funniest photography-related books I've come across in the past few years is a very small, brown, plain-looking volume from Phaidon. It's called "Boring Postcards." Somehow, I think the German title, "Langweilige Postkarten" is even more evocative. It's a collection of meticulously grouped, carefully reproduced... boring postcards. Yet the parade of gas stations, diners, shopping malls, motorways, airports, and other extremely un-photogenic subjects often photographed without even a modicum of ambition, when presented as a collection, is incredibly funny."

I have often go to showings of photographs at a gallery somewhere in the city and most of the times I am absolutely amazed by the skill or technique or subject matter or even the color combinations in the images shot by the artist. However, there are times when I wonder why certain images are classified as art, and why I even bothered coming. This is an interesting article that talks about boring images and whether such a thing truly exists. Do you guys find yourselves taking photographs of seemingly boring subject matter and then find that a particular shot came out to be particularly cool completely by fluke? And there are other times when you are looking at totally mundane shots that look uninspired individually, but look great when looked at as a collection (or collage). This is one of the few articles that I have seen that addresses this point. Anyways, I particularly a sentence from this article - "Photography is the art form that's best suited for us uncreative people."