<p><strong>Jason Farago:</strong> The real tragedy of the death of Kodak is that the volume of photos taken today may be up, but we are just corporate pawns</p>
theguardian.com<p><strong>Jason Farago:</strong> The real tragedy of the death of Kodak is that the volume of photos taken today may be up, but we are just corporate pawns</p>
This is where I think we’re headed: toward an era of intuitive, symbolic, and emotionally intelligent image-making. A visual culture that feels slower. Tactile. Thoughtful. One that doesn’t just show beauty, but holds something sacred in it, something you can’t immediately explain.
We’re All Image Directors Now
The New York of the thirties was very different from Paris: “not so much beauty and tradition as native fantasia emerging from accelerated greed.” Abbott’s book is aptly titled, for she is not so much memorializing the past as simply documenting ten years of the chronic self-destruct quality of American experience, in which even the recent past is
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There is a photograph coming at you every few seconds, and hype is the lingua franca. It has become hard to stand still, wrapped in the glory of a single image, as the original viewers of old paintings used to do. The flood of images has increased our access to wonders and at the same time lessened our sense of wonder.
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James and Karla Murray's evocative, nostalgic signs of the times - Brooklyn Magazine
Benedict Cosgrovebkmag.com
Gorgeous, abundant visuals are just pale imitations of what young people used to have: an actual scene.