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Have same problem w/ photographers' sites as I do w/ modern artists, many modern composers, and a lot of theologians -- they're showing off for each other, not doing their work for the non-professional, or those outside the circle or the feeding cycle.

As in the case w/ modern art, if you don't already know the history, the stories and symbolism behind the work, it is completely unusable for the normal user. This is almost always true to some extent with art or anything else, but with modern art, the entirety of the work sometimes consists not in the visual/visible effect of the constructed work, but in a conversation about the work that the work merely points at from across the street.


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