#100hardtruths

Some #100hardtruths on Images

A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about photography, (in)visibility, and the power of images.

“In a time where the promise of self-expression has been fundamentally realized only to be as quickly commodified, where our righteous images are easily ripped from their origins so that one person’s proof can become someone else’s opposing “truth,” curatorial projects supported by cultural institutions that ground our images and our acts of reception in carefully constructed contexts might be some of the best possible “good” holding environments, places that might enable us to remake ourselves as the informed, receptive, interactive, embodied citizens most worthy of making use of the history and current conditions of the social justice images in our midst.” (from #100hardtruth #27: new mage holding environments needed)

Contents of this path:

  1. #27: new image holding environments needed
  2. #31: look deeper into the migrant experience
  3. #34: place matters; re/flecting the border
  4. #37, size matters; we have to be minimalist
  5. #40, challenge the narrative of (African) American progress
  6. #42: phatic communication eases interactions but lessens information
  7. #44, black lives matter
  8. #46, stay aware, not afraid
  9. #69, ghosts can’t tell stories
  10. #70, reconnect the space that advertising has interrupted
  11. #71, cultural myths often lead to dominant ideologies
  12. #72, learn how to see Palestine
  13. #74, stay open to contradictions and power #offline
  14. #75, no time for fools
  15. #77, expose the costs and histories of freedom
  16. #83, focus attention on the real-world applications of #fakenews
  17. #85, make productive fake documentaries
  18. #86: resist how we are framed
  19. #91, we need the NEA and NEH to know how to imagine ourselves as a nation
  20. #94, always look for the real thing