{"id":205,"date":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=205"},"modified":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:23:05","slug":"artificial-arcadia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/artificial-arcadia\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Arcadia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text\">&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t get it&rdquo; are the first words that come to mind on reading <\/span><span class=\"italic\"><span class=\"text\">Artificial Arcadia<\/span><\/span><span class=\"text\">. Seemingly, I&rsquo;m in the minority as no less than five academics have written complementary essays published alongside Bas Princen&rsquo;s &ldquo;awesome and puzzling&rdquo; photographs of the Dutch at play on reclaimed land. It&rsquo;s true some are puzzling &ndash; memorably, the image of three individuals apparently fishing, their rods cast, but without a stretch of water in sight &ndash; but they are only momentarily puzzling, not intriguing and multi-dimensional, and they leave one with a feeling of indifference.<\/p>\n<p> One essayist, Bart Lootsma, finds many of the subjects of the images hilarious, for example people driving through the mud at high speed. Again, I don&rsquo;t get it. Personally, I find none of the humour evident in, for example, Martin Kollar&rsquo;s work (published in EI8HT V3N2) that demonstrates a keen eye for the surreal in every day life and an even quicker &ldquo;trigger&rdquo; finger to capture in a moment the subject of his amused eye. In contrast, Princen&rsquo;s photographs are laboured, lacking the spontanaiety and intimacy of a snapper truly engaged by his subject matter. Perhaps, as Lootsma says, the photographer&rsquo;s work is akin to his contemporaries&rsquo; oeuvres, including Struth, Ruff and Gursky. If this is the case, perhaps, Princen&rsquo;s work would be better viewed on a huge scale, hanging in a gallery and not presented in a &ldquo;small&rdquo; book. Perhaps, as I said, I just don&rsquo;t get it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gordon Miller&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=166&amp;Itemid=77\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"review_photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/reviews\/V3N4\/resources\/artificialarcadia.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Artificial Arcadia \" title=\"Artificial Arcadia\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"115\" height=\"130\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><span class=\"review_author\">Bas Princen<\/span><br \/><span class=\"review_additional\">  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished by 010<br \/>  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&pound;25<br \/>  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t128pp 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