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Steps away from me, a visitor holds a camera to his eye to take a photograph of a photograph of Georgia’s unblinking face. In the moment it feels like a surreal thing to witness, but again I understand why it’s happening. Behind that apparatus, the gentleman feels that he has a surer grip on reality, as it can be difficult to fully experience what
... See morePatrick Bringley • All the Beauty in the World
Without getting into the vanity aspect of it all, the image appears to be alive. Where is the immediate livingness?
Gilbert Schultz • Self Aware
Issac Lam and John Yuyi remind locals that Hong Kong is not a “dying” city
Global Brooklyn: Designing Food Experiences in Global Cities,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
All too often in our media, the words take us all the way there, but the photographs, habituated to a certain safety, hold back.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
1930s street photography of Walker Evans or the work of 1970s graphic designers like Paula Scher, both drawing inspiration from vernacular sources, finding
Faythe Levine • Sign Painters
a screen, a Japanese one, perhaps, with rich and mellow,…
Margo Jefferson • Maud Martha
... See moreLast July I read a book about the Great Depression. In it they described a carnival tent, kept at arm's length from the others, where men would gather at night. And they would peer through a gauzy curtain to watch a woman lie on a fainting couch and await the coming dawn. The men could not make out her face, or even if she was truly beautiful, but