book print ink paper type interview with jesse england response
Out of everything in this article, two phases jumped out at me, though both were somewhat off topic.
"For an individual to buy or borrow a book and read about something without it being noted by Google or their country’s surveillance administration is almost becoming a political act in itself."
After doing a project about surveillance last semester, I found this idea very interesting. Everything is and can be tracked online, but physical objects cannot. This is especially interesting when it comes to books because they spread information, and this seems to be there only form in which any kind of surveillance has no idea who is accessing that information. I think because of this printed works (especially home-made like zines) now come across as somewhat rebellious for this reason.
I considered the role of the camera as a mask, preventing me from living the moments I was capturing.
This is something that hit me pretty hard over winter break when I was in Seattle visiting the Chihuly exhibit. As you walk in there is a sign saying "photography is encouraged" or something along those lines. Throughout the exhibit, all you could see and hear here camera shutters and flashes. It was extremely distracting to the work. What really got to me was watching the people who were taking the pictures. They would walk into a new room in the exhibit and go from piece to piece taking a photo and moving on without looking at it outside of the camera lens. Though it was encouraged by the sign, I found this extremely disrespectful. If these people just wanted to look at photos of his work, why not just go on Google Images. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper that way.
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