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.

Posted in: Arts + Culture, Photography

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Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer. A former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazine, she is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. Jessica received both her BA and MFA from Yale University where she has taught since 1994. In 2013, she won the AIGA medal.

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