What is it that draws the eye into the mystery of the photograph? Its potency as a relic? its otherworldliness? its fiction? This question by Hervé Guibert is to the point: "How can you talk about photography without… instagram.com/p/BxhQqXdFxKC/…
"I don’t like America enough to want to live anywhere else except Manhattan. And what I like about Manhattan is that it’s full of foreigners. The America I live in is the America of the cities. The rest is just drive-through.” Susan Sontag. Kindred spirit.
To mark the release of his new book The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media with @VersoBooks, social theorist @nathanjurgenson will be joined in conversation by author, curator and lecturer @AnnebellaPollen on 2 May.
Details via the link!
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As May postpones/abandons her attempt to sell and win a vote on her Brexit deal, the faces on government benches are uniformly deeply glum: This moment represents a rock bottom low in British politics