Tim Barrus, New York Times

I love this stuff where the act of writing remains a theology. Black Mountain is just a few miles from where I live in these same mountains. This year, the green rolling hills are breathtaking. These guys at Black Rock were the parents and grandparents of the counter culture itself. They paid their dues and there were dues. I am not sure that these folks are aware of the dues that were paid just to get photography seen as art. The old stuffies still will not feature photography as an art form. Art is what you would hang on your walls if you were the King of England. That would be about it.  Art is the property of both the church and state. One steals symbolisms from the other and the other of the other steals the symbolisms we have created and called it time. Legitimacy is imbued with artifacts when the state comes marching in. Religion is a caretaker. Therefore conservative. In order to take a photograph, any photograph, requires imagination. Both the church and the state do not have one single molecular piece of imagination. Most Homo sapiens are art blind.