MANIFESTO
WePresent | A Manifesto by Lonnie Holley
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WePresent | A creative manifesto by filmmaker Molly Manning Walker
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A Manifesto by Martin Parr — Ten Rules of Photography for Emerging Photographers
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1. Manifestos usually include a list of numbered tenets.
The format has been de rigeur since at least as far back as The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789). It conveys a sense of urgency and straight talk. This is also why manifestos feel so contemporary: their close resemblance to click-bait top 10 lists.
Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
Any manifesto worth reading demands the impossible.
Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
Fleeting and permanent, serious and ridiculous, sincere and ironic, always undermining their own authority, manifestos are unstable texts in the extreme.
Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
These principles act as a soft manifesto for myself, and for anyone else who wants to be an artist practicing for softer reasons at softer paces in softer spaces:
- Can you afford to break down any barriers between your work and the audience? (monetary, language, accessibility, etc.)
- What can you gain, that is not money, from the work?
- Who, that is not