MoCP

I recently visited the Museum of Contemporary Photography.  I thought a lot about the exhibit there called Peripheral Views of America.  I can appreciate any kinda of art and I can honestly say I enjoyed going to the MoCP.  I thought the concept of the exhibit was a little strange though.  After hearing all that Sontag had to say about photography I feel a bit brain washed.  It's hard to not look at it negatively now.  I don't really like how they attempted to capture the United States in just a few hundred photos.  Yeah, that's a lot but can you really explain and visualize something in just photos?  On top of that, all the ones that were taken off of Google Earth were from poor communities.  If I didn't live here and saw this exhibit I would look at America as a sad poor dirty place.  Since I live here does that give me the right to judge wherever that photo was taken from and say that it is a sad poor dirty place? No, maybe that picture was just taken from a bad neighborhood and from the opposite angle that town could look completely different.  I just don't see what they are trying to get at from the Google Earth photos.  On the other hand, I do see their point with the giant collection of photos.  I can see that they are trying to point out that America is a materialistic country.  I don't think that every person in the United States worships objects but our culture influences us to be that way.  I think the videos, The Silent Echo Chamber, really worked.  I thought it was hilarious, yet true and serious at the same time.  It was so foreign to see the people who I know from just the world of television in their own little worlds.  It makes you realize that their stardom is somewhat of a show.  They are real people too, and of coarse I know this, but being a viewer you never see that side of them.