The Hierarchy of Legitimacies
“Barbarous taste” is never entirely free of all reference to ‘good taste’,… in their eyes, of forming the basis of an adequate judgment, and which can only be acquired by a specific or broad education.…Within the field of consecrated culture they feel measured according to objective norms, and forced to adopt a dedicated, ceremonial and ritualized attitude.…The various systems of expression are objectively organized according to a hierarchy independent of individual opinions, which defines cultural legitimacy and its gradations.(95) The meaning that fall within the sphere of legitimacy all share the fact that they are organized according to a particular type of system, developed and inculcated by the school, an institution specifically responsible for communicating knowledge, organized into hierarchy, through a methodological organization of training and practice.(96)The existence of consecrated works and the whole system of rules defining the sacramental approach presuppose an institution whose function is not only one of communication and distribution but also legitimation. The position of photography within the hierarchy of legitimacy, half-way between vulgar practice and sphere of legitimacy, …(97)unlike a legitimate practice, a practice in the process of legitimation poses and imposes the question of its own legitimacy. For working class and middle class ,the aesthetic expressed as much in photographic practice as in judgments on photography ,appears as a dimension of the ethos, so that the aesthetic of the great mass of photographic works may be legitimately reduced, without being reductive, to the sociology of the groups that produce them, the functions which they assign to them and the meanings which they confer upon them, both explicitly and, more particularly, implicitly.(98)
“Barbarous taste” is never entirely free of all reference to ‘good taste’,… in their eyes, of forming the basis of an adequate judgment, and which can only be acquired by a specific or broad education.…Within the field of consecrated culture they feel measured according to objective norms, and forced to adopt a dedicated, ceremonial and ritualized attitude.…The various systems of expression are objectively organized according to a hierarchy independent of individual opinions, which defines cultural legitimacy and its gradations.(95) The meaning that fall within the sphere of legitimacy all share the fact that they are organized according to a particular type of system, developed and inculcated by the school, an institution specifically responsible for communicating knowledge, organized into hierarchy, through a methodological organization of training and practice.(96)The existence of consecrated works and the whole system of rules defining the sacramental approach presuppose an institution whose function is not only one of communication and distribution but also legitimation. The position of photography within the hierarchy of legitimacy, half-way between vulgar practice and sphere of legitimacy, …(97)unlike a legitimate practice, a practice in the process of legitimation poses and imposes the question of its own legitimacy. For working class and middle class ,the aesthetic expressed as much in photographic practice as in judgments on photography ,appears as a dimension of the ethos, so that the aesthetic of the great mass of photographic works may be legitimately reduced, without being reductive, to the sociology of the groups that produce them, the functions which they assign to them and the meanings which they confer upon them, both explicitly and, more particularly, implicitly.(98)
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