u/nevervoted4trump

I have seen a photographer downtown selling what amounts to photos of his trips overseas. He booked tours and took pictures. These are not hard to get photos at all. Any tourist of any age could get them. He was selling them for a high price.

Why fund his vacation?

I know not everyone can afford to go on these trips but if you can why not just save the money for your trip? If you can't why not save the money for a memory of some sort?

Another genre that I struggle to understand is taking pictures of Native Americans and selling them. I know culture needs to be shared but it is strange to take pictures of people like they are strange and foreign and making a profit off them. .

I am not talking about Native American artists themselves. I am talking about people like Edward. S Curtis who removed modern items from his pictures and George Catlin who pushed the idea that Natives were going extinct. These artists would swap items across tribes creating a false image. They also pushed the Vanishing Indian idea freezing Natives in a moment in time.

When I was a kid I went downtown and I saw Native Americans on T-Shirts and I saw pictures of Natives living their everyday lives framed on walls. Both of these things creeped me out. How would you feel if your Monday was hanging on a wall like it was exotic? The people in the pictures did not look happy.

I don't understand the appeal of Ansel Adams but at least he was creating something new and I respect that.

The only genre I understand is photojournalism. That comes with risk and is trying to change the world. I get paying someone 3k for a photo when they dodged rubber bullets to get it.

When I was younger I went to a fine art photo gallery because it covered a subject I liked. The photos were just staged shots. Maybe the goal was to capture people in ordinary moments but it fell flat to me. The owner was very rude to me as well. Growing up here this was another aspect of the art world I began to see as a scam just like abstract art.

We should be honoring the brave men and women who died defending their home from the Taylor/Missouri Volunteer Rampages.

We should honor the men lynched for fighting a occupation not Juan Ornate or De Vargas.

I call myself a Mexican because of the second two promises of The Three Guarantees.

Mexican is not a dirty world like we were brain washed to think it is. It's who we really are.

The Mexicans who died at the Alamo died fighting on the right side of history as the video will show you.

https://searchlightnm.org/race-and-class-in-new-mexico/

A lot of the Spanish thing came from L. Bradford Prince in the 1800's as the link above will show you.

The Americans all know we are really Mexican and laugh at us when we claim to be Spanish. We are no more Spanish then the people of Chihuahua.

Don't let the system that was made to imprison our mind keep you locked up.

i do not want to deny that New Mexicans were huge slave traders. Some Native's were as well but that does not give the New Mexicans the excuse to wash that history away.

I believe Mexico would have outlawed slavery here if we had won.

I also believe once we start getting massacred we become the good guys.

The Americans came here not just for land but to increase their slave holding lands and they can't wash that history away either which they try to do when the lecture us and talk down to us about our past.

Everyday it's insult after insult. It is one thing if you moved here to work at the lab and never claimed to care about the so called culture but so many people who move here do it for the so called culture.

I have been told "Wow you don't sound New Mexican" "You?!?!?! own a house" "They are all criminals" "They don't even own passports" "They need us" "They are violent for no reason" "All they do is drugs" "My class is going to be so easy because it's all New Mexicans"

Trust me, me and my circle would have been just fine without your art and pennies. In fact I think housing would be so much better if we were able to make our own world without all this tourist Santa Fe style garbage. There is a brain drain here. The smartest New Mexicans leave for places with real community but a lot more would have stayed if this place actual meant something to the common man.

They also love to throw De Vargas in our face to deflect from their crimes as if most New Mexicans haven't already moved away and only a handful still even care about the parade. Like they didn't own slaves and do Sandy Creek.

I have only seen a handful of art here that said anything worth saying so you aren't any better.

I am not talking about other parts of New Mexico just Santa Fe.