manifestos.
WePresent | A Manifesto by Lonnie Holley
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WePresent | A creative manifesto by filmmaker Molly Manning Walker
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A Manifesto by Martin Parr — Ten Rules of Photography for Emerging Photographers
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1. Manifestos usually include a list of numbered tenets.
The format has been de rigeur since at least as far back as The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789). It conveys a sense of urgency and straight talk. This is also why manifestos feel so contemporary: their close resemblance to click-bait top 10 lists.
Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
Any manifesto worth reading demands the impossible.
Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
Fleeting and permanent, serious and ridiculous, sincere and ironic, always undermining their own authority, manifestos are unstable texts in the extreme.
Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
These principles act as a soft manifesto for myself, and for anyone else who wants to be an artist practicing for softer reasons at softer paces in softer spaces:
- Can you afford to break down any barriers between your work and the audience? (monetary, language, accessibility, etc.)
- What can you gain, that is not money, from the work?
- Who, that is not
Cortney Cassidy • A soft manifesto
Writing a manifesto isn't just about desire and vision, though. The process invites you to explore who you must become, what principles you must embody, and how you must act in order for your desires to come to fruition. It brings you face to face with your shadow, and forces you to reckon with the reality of where you are today. To sit with the st
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