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Revised version of my Frank musings. “The photographing of America” is a large order — read at all literally, the phrase would be an absurdity. What I have in mind, then, is observation and record of what one naturalized American finds to see in the United States that signifies the kind of civilization born here and spreading …
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Latour gave a talk last night at the Institut Français in London. He was launching a new initiative at SciencesPo focussed around the ecological emergency. His talk was called: Waiting for Gaia: Composing the Common world through Arts and Politics. I’m sure the Institut will put up a good quality video of the talk but for those …
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The Internationale Daily is out! http://t.co/C3qqxkR8 ▸ Top stories today via @gamesmonitor @rpeckham @eddieizzard @rhizomedotorg @monoskop # Zukerberg sings "there are worse things I could do" #greasesocialnetwork # Google Plus sings "you're the one that I want" #greasesocialnetwork # Let's make that "phrase 'social network'" and try and find a way to type on an …
Below the slides from my Digital Charabanc workshop in London this week. Despite my voice giving out half way through, a great day discussing how potential and pitfalls of an integrated social media strategy for opening an developing content relationships. Social Media : the library, the broadcast and the party View more presentations from the …
“Bill at one time said to his great, highly-respected friend: ‘Well what am I gonna photograph? Everything around here is so ugly.’ And our friend said: ‘photograph the ugly stuff’” Rosa Eggleston (Wife) in{Holzemer 2008}. “I’ve seen him stare for hours at a china set. And not a particularly valuable china set” Andra Eggleston (daughter) …
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Part of the fuss around Sally Mann’s collection Immediate Family was that she had turned her children into objects. In the images of their childhood in rural Virginia, parts of their pre-pubescent bodies that should only have been visible (a matter of concern) to their parents had been objectified. The girl or boy, the ‘child’ …