Digital BW, The Print

<djon43@...> wrote:
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> Interesting...I found Basilico's work an empty, cynical pose that
> fastidiously ignored the fundamental character of the region, which is
> human in more complexity than any other place on earth. 

Silicon Valley is human in more complexity than any other place on 
earth ???? Is this spoken in jest? Really what's so human, or 
distinctive, or richly complex about Mc. Mansions, Office buildings, 
strip malls and whatever else makes up contemporary suburbia? 
I agree about Basilico's coming across as cynic at times (btw he's a 
He: Gabriele is a male name in Italian) but many consider it a sign of 
honesty, true to the nature of the place photographed. Similar to the 
lack of sentimentality exhibited by Friedlander next door in many of 
his images of the same subject btw. The main difference being a 
quintessential American sensibility versus a European one. All of this 
IMHO of course. 

Dario