Boring Pictures

Abstract

This chapter explores the suitability of photography as a medium for investigating and revealing the ambiguity and elusiveness of the everyday. It examines a number of photographers whose work addresses aspects of the quotidian. Since its invention, photography has drastically changed perceptions of ordinary life, particularly how the everyday is situated in relation to the exotic and dramatic. Photography is often situated separately to art, seen as too real to contain depth or to merit deeper questioning, and is commonly associated more with function than aesthetic. The photographic series Making Do and Getting By by sculptor Richard Wentworth presents glimpses of tactical resistance in the everyday. For Jacques Rancière, everyday art forms such as photography and cinema, as well as art of the everyday, most freely permit dislocation of the sensible.

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