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Weegee’s Three Dancers
Photojournalism is most recognized for its ability to visually capture significant historical events, but it also serves to ignite memories that would otherwise be lost. Even without the exact details of the time and place, the image Untitled (Three Dancers) embodies such a concept of memory. A stark black-and-white photograph depicting three female dancers, the…
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I Live Where You Vacation: Tourism as a Panoptic Way of Seeing
This advertisement features Grace Line, a luxury cruise line famous for visiting various South American countries. The voyage anchors in New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico City; stops include Colombia, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Havana. The bottom left hand corner of the advertisement indicates its publisher: Charles Francis Press, located in New York.…
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High vs. Low Art: From Bedrock to the Big Screen
What makes a piece of visual media worth viewing? Who and what dictates an artwork’s worth and its indoctrination into museums or magazines? For ages, art historians of all disciplines have been conflicted on the issue of high versus low art. “High” art is said to be anything worthy of being viewed in a museum…
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Censorship: A Form of Oppression and Liberation
Wartime photography brought up many significant discussions about the credibility of visual media. It was often conflated with propaganda, accused of sending political messages and misinformation, and designed with the purpose to change people’s opinions about the war. This image is from the September 28th, 1942 edition of LIFE magazine. It portrays a young woman…
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Can the Paradise Afford You?
An aware subject is a biased one.Join me as I lay a path between not looking into the realm of control. Mere ObservationWhen you want something to be captured alla prima, a moment captured as it lay, you shall not observe it. This is a decent rule, exemplified by quantum particles, and practiced by nature…
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From Philco to “Philcoland”
Alice’s Refrigerators in “Philcoland” In 1948, Philco, a pioneer in electronic appliance manufacturing, released an advertisement in Time magazine that encapsulated more than just the allure of a modern appliance. Featuring Alice and friends from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” the advertisement presented the Philco Refrigerator as a symbol of post-war innovation and household modernity.…
