Barrett comments, "Robert has dragged me by the hair of my head to the
Photographist here, & I have been executed duly ..
Early in his career, it was "paraphotographer", and then at the end, as the title for a 35-year retrospective he had in 1999, it became "Robert Heinecken,
Photographist".
Goldin really is a photographer as well as a
photographist. Her pictures, typically large glossy Cibachrome prints of a kind of Caravaggesque intensity, monumentalize the spirit of the snapshot as an intersection of the personal and the universal.
I'11 make the effort by calling the first group photographers, as is the practice, and introduce the term
photographist for the latter.