Seeing Is Believing — Real Life
Photography, as Susan Sontag famously pointed out, has long been seen as a form of evidence. That spirit seems to animate the trend — spreading and evolving since summer 2017 — of posting “Instagram vs. real life” diptychs that demonstrate how photos, side by side, can become evidence against themselves. Popular in the wellness community, these show food or physiques, spectacularly camera-ready on one side and quotidian on the other. One may depict a brightly colored, Instagram-ready smoothie...
Seeing Is Believing — Real Life
Photography, as Susan Sontag famously pointed out, has long been seen as a form of evidence. That spirit seems to animate the trend — spreading and evolving since summer 2017 — of posting “Instagram vs. real life” diptychs that demonstrate how photos, side by side, can become evidence against themselves. Popular in the wellness community, these show food or physiques, spectacularly camera-ready on one side and quotidian on the other. One may depict a brightly colored, Instagram-ready smoothie...
Punk artworks for new Belfast exhibition space
Jamie Reid exhibition BelfastImage caption, God Save The Queen has been labelled "the single most iconic image of the punk era" Some of the most famous images of the punk era have gone on display at Belfast's newest art gallery. Ulster Presents is a custom-built exhibition space and part of the Ulster University's new city centre campus. Its first exhibition - Taking Liberties! - features the work of the famed punk provocateur Jamie Reid. Reid is synonymous with The Sex Pistols afte...
Punk artworks for new Belfast exhibition space
Jamie Reid exhibition BelfastImage caption, God Save The Queen has been labelled "the single most iconic image of the punk era" Some of the most famous images of the punk era have gone on display at Belfast's newest art gallery. Ulster Presents is a custom-built exhibition space and part of the Ulster University's new city centre campus. Its first exhibition - Taking Liberties! - features the work of the famed punk provocateur Jamie Reid. Reid is synonymous with The Sex Pistols afte...
