Annika Bansal
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Annika Bansal
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On Beauty and Being Just
Exploring the relationship between beauty, consciousness, errors in perception, and the role of beauty in education, using examples from art, literature, and philosophy.
attachments.are.nathe simplest manifestation of the phenomenon is the everyday fact of staring. The ®rst ¯ash of the bird incites the desire to duplicate not by translating the glimpsed image into a drawing or a poem or a6 art One photograph but simply by continuing to see her ®ve seconds, twenty-®ve seconds, forty-®ve seconds laterÐas long as the bird is there to be beheld.
When photographs were first invented, people thought of them like paintings. There was nothing else to compare them to. Thus, subjects in photos copied subjects in paintings. And since people sitting for portraits couldn’t hold a smile for the many hours the painting took, they adopted a serious look. Subjects in photos adopted the same look.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
A sun-headed deity of Tamgaly, petroglyph from 3,500 years ago in the Bronze Age.
journalism becomes most effective when it prompts public awareness, inspires reflection and spurs dialogue.