Sights & Sites
Notes and miscellanea toward my thesis as I round out my MFA in Graphic Design. For more information on my work and process, visit my homepage.
Photographer John Schabel’s Passenger series captures people through airplane windows, taken from the tarmac. A reversal of what we normally expect as passengers looking outward, in transition between places.
2 years agoJohn Urry, The Tourist Gaze, p. 45
Not that I needed any justification to make all of them.
2 years agoThe Path of My Electricity
For David Reinfurt’s Distribution class I charted the path of electricity to a lightbulb in my apartment.
2 years ago
As Tibet Erupted, China Wavered - New York Times
“In Lhasa during the recent riots, a tourist who requested anonymity took this photo of Chinese goods being burned.” (from the photo caption on the NYT website)
In the midst of the riots in Lhasa, tourists are filling in with eye-witness accounts where the media has been banned. An interesting twist on the lens of the tourist gaze.
2 years agoJeff Scher’s animated assemblage of postcard imagery in remembrance of a friend. Thanks Leslie
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