So It Goes

This is a response to Neal Rantoul's piece, "A Disturbing Trend", and while it might contain a rebuttal of this point or that, it is not intended as a rebuttal as such. This should be a conversation!
Neal's unhappiness seems to stem from two separate sources. The first is that photographic Artists tend to be supplying what strikes him as an excess of text to go with their pictures, and the second is that their pictures are often not any good. Of course, there are surely dunderheads wandering about thoughtlessly snapping a few random frames, and then covering for their laziness by grinding out a few paragraphs of equally lazy incomprehensible buzzword-laden Artist's Statement.

Surely, though, there are hard working students, not a bit lazy, who are completing bodies of work that are superficially similar to the lazybones projects? Art has moved in that direction, for several reasons, some good, some bad.

Let's think about text. While we cannot go back and time to 1938 to visit the MOM...