Re: Defining "post-modernism" -- WAS--- First define "post-modern"photography, dammit

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:26 AM, jfulton wrote:

> > As for postmodernism, I find this all rather amusing.  I've  
> > searched for years for a good definition of postmodernism, and all  
> > I've found is lists of things that might characterize it, lists  
> > that tend to contradict each other when lined up side by side.  I  
> > get the feeling that postmodernism is anything anybody wants it to  
> > be.  In which case one can't fault anyone's list of postmodernist  
> > photographers, even if many of them don't seem to qualify by one's  
> > own understanding of what "postmodernism" means.
> > Katharine
>
> This is more a 'rattling on' than anything . . . and not a critique  
> of Katherine either . . but more thoughts on PoMo for it is not  
> easy, really,
> to grasp . . neither is the Post Structuralist movement it came from.
Umm, my point was that different people focus on different things to  
define postmodernism; Jack's response is no exception to this  
observation.