I thank you for being fair and open in part deux! I also think you were being fair to yourself in part one but perhaps unwilling to consider that the gallerist might have been honest and not hyperbolic in his feelings about Sart. I do genuinely think he is “the leading photographer of the blogosphere” (name another) as well as “the first real photographer of the internet” (meaning that is his background, context, and medium).

In my press release – which can be read on the gallery website – we pretty much agree on what Sart’s work is. I called it pictures of “how both men and women with great style look when they venture out on the street”. No-one was making claims of great psychological depth unless you subscribe to the notion that the superficial is inherently deep – which it probably is!

But I do think Sart is a really good photographer. His work is fresh. His style while in the tradition of August Sander is modern and original. The show was always intended as something of an adjunct to his enormously popular and successful blog (on which he now gets up to 90,000 visits a day). And it’s been fun, popular, and successful.

For your readers’ info – it’s up through Feb 23.