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With 39 sources spanning Bluesky, YouTube, Threads and RSS, @hiro.report's custom feed is focused, framed, and full of inspiration. Must follow for photographers.

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#photography#photographers#camera
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Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ

"In an article published in Harper’s New Monthly magazine in 1853, we read that a Louisiana plantation overseer watches over slaves harvesting sugar cane from a horse. He is elevated to enhance his ability to keep the workers in view while also symbolically placing him above them. We see through this example how visuality is in part about the systems of power through which authority is enacted and enforced practically and symbolically. Whereas the overseer looks down at his charges from above, the slaves must keep their eyes to the ground in deference to his authority and in attentive focus on the labor that they must perform. The whip resting on the carter's shoulder in the illustration is a threat kept in full view. Any slave who glances up at the overseer will be reminded to put their head down and work harder and faster out of fear." - Sturken, Marita & Cartwright, Lisa (2018). Practices of looking: an introduction to visual culture. Third edition New York: Oxford University Press, p. 23.

Harvesting the Sugar Cane, 1853, engraving by J. W. Orr A line point engraving in black and white of enslaved people cutting and collecting sugarcane while in the middle distance an overseer stands in a wagon with a whip upon his shoulder. He is clearly watching the slaves work and represents a threat of disciplinary violence. The Louisiana plantation overseer watches over slaves harvesting sugar cane from a horse. He is elevated to enhance his ability to keep the workers in view while also symbolically placing him above them. We see through this example how visuality is in part about the systems of power through which authority is enacted and enforced practically and symbolically. Whereas the overseer looks down at his charges from above, the slaves must keep their eyes to the ground in deference to his authority and in attentive focus on the labor that they must perform. The whip resting on the carter's shoulder in the illustration is a threat kept in full view. Any slave who glances up at the overseer will be reminded to put their head down and work harder and faster out of fear.
#VisualCulture#Visuality#Slavery
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Sebastián Andrés Vis
‘what is the point’ - 2025
Hello there, I'm Sebastian and I make typewriter art / concrete poetry.
🌐 sebastianandres.site

A lot of hashtags;
#modernart #minimalism #digitalart #collage #creativewriting #conceptart #artcollective #artcommunity #calligraphy #illustration #handmade #mixedmedia #fineart #culture #artprocess #textart #performanceart #poetrycommunity #storytelling #imagination #paperart #aesthetic #artinspiration #artdaily #visualculture #studioart #newmediaart #artlovers #poeticart #queerart #experimentalart #art #oc #writer #writers #write #artists #artistsonpixelfed #typewriter #design #poetry #poems #poem #queer #concretepoetry #typewriterart #artwork #drawing #painting #poet #artshare #vispo #visualart #type #typography #image #photo #photography #photoshoot #sketch #draw
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Sebastián Andrés Vis
Hello there, I'm Sebastian and I make typewriter art / concrete poetry. This one is called ‘PATTERN’ and I made this in 2024. This piece is a prime example of a concrete poem where the alignment, form and visual aspect of the work mirrors its inherent meaning and context of the word.

I love experimenting with my typewriter, let me know what you think.
🪭 Contact for commissions or collaboration
🌐 sebastianandres.site



A lot of hashtags;
#modernart #minimalism #digitalart #collage #creativewriting #conceptart #artcollective #artcommunity #calligraphy #illustration #handmade #mixedmedia #fineart #culture #artprocess #textart #performanceart #poetrycommunity #storytelling #imagination #paperart #aesthetic #artinspiration #artdaily #visualculture #studioart #newmediaart #artlovers #poeticart #queerart #experimentalart #art #oc #writer #writers #write #artists #artistsonpixelfed #typewriter #design #poetry #poems #poem #queer #concretepoetry #typewriterart #artwork #drawing #painting #poet #artshare #vispo #visualart #type #typography #image #photo #photography #photoshoot #sketch #draw #contemporaryart #museum #expo #exposition #exhibition #photooftheday #arte #artoftheday #typewritten #artgallery #gallery #creative #creation #abstract #contemporary #abstractart #graphic #graphicdesign #artshow #arttherapy #artjournal #artlife #artforsale #portfolio #artisan #artsy #arts #artistic
“A square image with black letters on a white background, The letters are arranged in a pattern that reads “pattern” therefore mirroring the form of the concrete poem. The work is made with a typewriter''
“A square image with black letters on a white background, The letters are arranged in a pattern that reads “pattern” therefore mirroring the form of the concrete poem. The work is made with a typewriter''
“A square image with black letters on a white background, The letters are arranged in a pattern that reads “pattern” therefore mirroring the form of the concrete poem. The work is made with a typewriter''
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Jonathan Emmesedi

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Thinking about the Warburg Institute prompted me to read this recently published biography of the founder of the library, Aby Warburg.

Knowing that Warburg was a humanist hostile to rigid disciplinary boundaries, I had imagined that Warburg himself was an easygoing chap, not at all inclined to academic territoriality.

This biography disabused me of that set of beliefs, as the author shows how insecurity with regard to his own scholarly identity led Warburg to engage in the unpleasant pettiness of academic politicking. I also learnt about his questionable activities as a propagandist for Germany during WWI, his abuse of his wife, and his disagreeable vanity.

I don't think this biographical detail discredits his ideas about images and the continuing influence of antiquity, Yet the biography did bring to my attention some of the problematic sources of Warburg's ideas, such as neolamarckian psychological theories that posited the heritability of memories.

Read the book if you're interested in art history, visual culture, the history of humanities scholarship, or the history of universities in Germany.

#AbyWarburg #HansHoenes #ArtHistory #WarburgInstitute #Hamburg #GermanHistory #IntellectualHistory #VisualCulture #Biography #Universities

reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/tangl

Reaktion BooksTangled Paths | Reaktion BooksTangled Paths tells the life story of Aby Warburg, one of the most influential historians of art and culture of the twentieth century. It also tells the story of a man who, throughout his life, struggled to assert his place in the world. Charting Warburg’s many projects and identities – ground-breaking historian, public intellectual, ethnographer, […]
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Harald Klinke

Conference: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images
When: May 8–10, 2025
Where: Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice

Submission deadline: Jan 5, 2025
The intersection of #AI, #Ethics, and #Aesthetics. Topics include authorship, creativity, and the impact of AI-generated images.
Keynotes by Neta Alexander, Lev Manovich, Joanna Zylinska & more.
#AIArt #VisualCulture #ArtificialIntelligence
arthist.net/archive/43203

arthist.netThe Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images (Venice, 8-10 May 25)
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD

New Tenure Track Position in our department:

Assistant Professor, Visual & Material Culture
Dept. of Social Science & Cultural Studies
Pratt Institute
We seek a dynamic scholar and educator whose research emphasizes visuality and/or materiality, and their social, political, economic, and cultural contexts... successful candidate may also contribute to our major and minors...

See link for more details:

#CulturalStudies #Sociology #VisualCulture #CriticalTheory #HistSTM
schooljobs.com/careers/pratt/j

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Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ

In 2020, an album with 377 photos of Paris under Nazi occupation, taken secretly by an unknown photographer when such images were banned, was discovered at a flea market.
Who was this mysterious photographer? Read Part 1 of Le Monde's four-year investigation.

#photography #WW2 #OccupiedParis #visualculture

lemonde.fr/en/summer-reads/art

Le Monde · Looking for the mysterious photographer who snapped occupied Paris and mocked the NazisBy Philippe Broussard
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