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Art & Design: 23 August 2010
BY TAXI
BY TAXI
The beauty of photography might also be its downfall: verisimilitude. Photojournalists strive for accurately—and beautifully—portraying disasters, wars and major events, but at what price?
A Guardian article illustrates how because these photographs are real, readers become desensitized to the going-ons around the world.
Floods, hurricanes, violent riots all get filtered through the Reuters and AP desks and onto our breakfast tables. It’s a deluge of unpleasant images that we’ve not only become accustomed to them—we’ve become apathetic.
A Guardian article illustrates how because these photographs are real, readers become desensitized to the going-ons around the world.
Floods, hurricanes, violent riots all get filtered through the Reuters and AP desks and onto our breakfast tables. It’s a deluge of unpleasant images that we’ve not only become accustomed to them—we’ve become apathetic.
Photo-reportage's Thwarted Potential [Guardian]
Football and Art Collide at LACMA [LA Times]
Bringing Bliss to Non-Speakers [Idsgn]
Cheetos Bags, Diapers Remade into Trash Cans [CNET]
Doctor Laser: Inside the Wondrous Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers [Motherboard]
Football and Art Collide at LACMA [LA Times]
Bringing Bliss to Non-Speakers [Idsgn]
Cheetos Bags, Diapers Remade into Trash Cans [CNET]
Doctor Laser: Inside the Wondrous Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers [Motherboard]
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