April 2012
6 posts
“I am interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by looking. This is interesting in itself, but more as a broad-based metaphor for how we understand the world.”
—William Kentridge
“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.”
—Walt Disney
“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
—Matt Hardy
March 2012
2 posts
February 2012
37 posts
“Without the inclusion of visual representations beyond traditional fine art forms, art students would not be fully equipped to understand the contemporary world in terms of social relationships, politics, race, gender, sexuality, and class — all aspects of cultural understanding.”
—Stewart and Walker, Visual culture and curriculum
“The low tech, intuitive nature of pinhole camera photography opens up many creative possibilities. When using a homemade camera that has no lens, lightmeter, automatic shutter, etc. the photographer can really get inside the process of the image creation itself, and develop an almost tactile sense of what is going on inside the camera while the image is being made.”
—Steve Irvine
