Conceptreal? Is it possible to have a conceptual body of work that is photojournalistic in nature?
Artist John Divola incorporates elements of editorial reportage in simple and incredibly effective conceptual bodies that deliver the goods. In Divola's words he describes the series:
"Contemplating a dog chasing a car invites any number of metaphors and juxtapositions: culture and nature, the domestic and the wild, love and hate, joy and fear, the heroic and the idiotic. It could be viewed as a visceral and kinetic dance. Here we have two vectors and velocities, that of a dog and that of a car and, seeing that a camera will never capture reality and that a dog will never catch a car, evidence of devotion to a hopeless enterprise."
