The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu reopened this weekend- and has been rechristened the “ Tokyo Photographic Art Museum”.
I’m still hoping it’ll be ok but seeing how they replaced “Photography” with “Photographic Art” in the title made my stomach churn a bit. The wider boundaries which “Photographic Art” implies makes me fear a smarmy museum mission where ideas (and gimmicks and installations and screens) will get in the way of pictures.
Whether photography is or isn’t Art isn’t the question- but the fact that it surpasses Art is to me, a fact.
東京写真美術館は「Tokyo Photographic Art Museum」という名前で開催されているそうだ。元名前にあった「写真」を消して「photographic art」というクソ言葉に変えてなんとなく心配するべきのポイントだと思うけど。。。 お腹痛くなるほど嫌な言葉だ。写真は写真だ。写真はアートを超えるんだ！