That Flickr Look?
“Merkley’s style is more R-rated and carnivalesque than Guoleifsdottir’s, but together the two Flickr stars have mounted a case against vérité rawness, in favor of posing, cropping and special effects. Guoleifsdottir and Merkley might have amounted to nothing in analog times, when elaborate deference to institutions, hard-won group shows and expensive years spent in unnoticed toil were the only way to success. But just as certain ne’er-do-well writers have found themselves in blogging, and failed filmmakers have taken to online video, these seemingly out-of-step artists have both invented and mastered the Flickr photograph.”