2. The adoption of deadpan aesthetics moves art photography
outside the hyperbolic, sentimental and subjective. -
Charlotte Cotton, [The Photograph as Contemporary Art, 81]
3. These pictures may engage us with emotive subjects, but our sense of what the
photographers emotions might be is not the obvious guide to
understanding the meaning of the images.
6. Deadpan photographs, so technically well done, pristine in their presentation,
Rich with visual information, and with a commanding presence, lent themselves well
To the newly privileged site of the gallery as a place for seeing photography.