J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with John Lehr
This book group was not recorded.
Episode #5 Summary:
The Island Position initiates a powerful discussion on advertising as a means of mass distraction from the process of contemporary extinction—a seismic shift that is being ignored.
Episode Notes
John Lehr talks about favoring light and shadow to highlight contrast and illuminate what is in plain sight. The conversation turns towards the usage of the commercial storefront as a barometer of American consumerism and a photographs’ generative relationship with culture, time and place.
In this book group, John discusses, among other things:
Westernized consumerism
What is at stake, not what is for sale
The digital and its’ immediacy vs risks of distraction
Red flags we walk by and ignore in everyday life
Referenced in this episode
The Pure Products of America Go Crazy
Qualifying Photography as Art, or, Is Photography All it Can Be? by Christopher Bedford
What is a Photograph? - exhibit by Carol Squiers
Published by MACK
This book group was not recorded.