April 8, 2014
Fast Thinking
You’d think this was another riff on the role of the image in popular culture, a nod to the power of the viral, a reminder that we all share the same guilty pleasures brought upon by all things paparazzi.
But you’d be wrong.
Look and read: a slapstick fall captured as a slow-motion sideshow? Or an example of how accelerated exposure times tell a different story? You be the judge.
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By Jessica Helfand
Jessica Helfand is an artist and writer based in New England. A former critic at Yale School of Art and one of the founding editors of Design Observer, she is the author of several books on visual culture including Self Reliance, Design: The Invention of Desire, and Face: A Visual Odyssey. jessicahelfand.com
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