Way back in the 1950s, sociologist Erving Goffman proposed in his study The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life that the very warp and woof of the social world consists of carefully constructed…
AgeMaps | Bobby Neel Adams
wheres the camera?
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My girlfriend and I were looking through one of her photo albums. She said “Here’s a picture of me from when I was younger.”
I said “Every picture is from when you were younger. I’d be more impressed if you showed me a picture of yourself 5 years into the future.”
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Matthew Palladino : “On the internets (woman)”, 2008
I love this image because the 2D forms trick you into thinking it’s naïve or folky, and only after looking for a little while do the the formal elements—like the repetition of her figure or use of pink (among many others)—slowly float to the surface.
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Have you ever felt drawn to a particular painting, sculpture, or handmade thing but you weren’t quite sure why? It could be that the item was made by an artist who infused his or her chi into the…
