No pictures today...just great discussion starting with our current political reality show now being played out by the GOP. After we dissected the candidates, their views and their interactions, we discussed the implications for all of us as citizens and voters in the upcoming presidential election. Lots of scary stuff. We then made an intellectual shift to how visual images help shape our attitudes towards the candidates. The still images in print media, the images on live TV, the role of social media in imaging and finally how captions of images influence our understanding and interpretation of the candidates. We discussed the role of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram influencing the narrative of the political races. We agreed, an interesting exercise would be for each of us to bring in a picture of any candidate to the meeting on March 19th...from any medium...print, TV, social media or internet. We will collectively look and interpret the image.
Howard and Kevin discussed the current Catherine Opie exhibit at the Hammer one of three Opie exhibits in LA...Hammer, LACMA and MOCA.
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