Interview with William Gibson in The Paris Review: It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future. What we were prior to our latest batch of technology is, in a way, unknowable. It would be harder to accurately imagine what New York City was like the day before the […]
From Jan Chipchase’s Future Perfect blog A simple and very effective technique for simultaneously putting the participant at ease and putting moral boundaries around the data that the team captures is to clearly state up-front that the participant will be prompted to review all the data that is held on them prior to the team’s leaving […]
Tags: ethics, field research
An evocative survey of photo albums captures the history of American photography – and asks whether we’ll ever impose order on our sprawling digital collections. “When you hold a photo album, you sense that you are in possession of something unique, intimate, and meant to be saved for a long time,” writes Verna Posever Curtis […]
Taryn Simon talks about her upcoming photographic exhibition at Tate Modern. From 1000 Words Photography Blog: Yet another fantastic multimedia production from Tate Shots, this piece on American photographer Taryn Simon (see Susan Bright’s article in #10 of 1000 Words) focuses on her new exhibition at Tate Modern ‘A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters’. Simon […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/us/30reunite.html (From the New York Times, 30 April 2011) The tornado that killed Emily Washburn’s grandfather this week also destroyed his Mississippi home, leaving his family with nothing to remember him by — until a picture of him holding the dog he loved surfaced on Facebook, posted by a woman who found it in her office parking […]
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