In America (1986), Baudrillard observed that the American smile is not an expression of genuine happiness but a kind of social contract — a permanent, obligatory display of openness and goodwill. It signals “I am not a threat” rather than…
Recently, I was traveling through the upper Midwest (Nebraska, South Dakota) and had the opportunity to meet up with a long-time friend and not-often-enough collaborator, Éireann Lorsung. While we were catching up, the sticky subject of AI-generated imagery came up.…
A meditation on eye contact via mass mediated reality. Do we trust someone more when they look us in the eye? What about when those eyes are presented to us via lens capture and distribution via a screen? This image…
I was once told by a friend that they could easily spot me at a great distance simply from the way I move my feet when I am walking. There’s a great deal of truth to this. We exhibit an…
One of the few photographs that I have of my paternal grandmother, Mildred. That is not to say that I do not have many of her photographs, however. Like Mildred, I’ve spent a great deal of time photographing material objects,…