Tribute to Bill Jay
The Guardian newspaper has published an obituary for photography historian and critic Bill Jay, a longtime Arizona State University faculty member and a prolific writer. Jay, 68, died May 10 in Costa Rica, where he had moved after his 2008 retirement. One of Jay’s later themes was that photography as he knew it—a distinct art form whose standards were set from within by its own master photographers—was coming to an end. Announcing his retirement last year in an acceptance speech at the ICP Infinity Awards, Jay declaring that the medium of photography had gone in a direction he couldn’t follow.
[via PDN]
