Real Life Magazine

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By Jenna Gribbon

[christtoandandrew]

A Message from Venus

Encrypted Purgatory

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From House on Fire by Sarah Anne Johnson.

http://reallifemag.com/the-accursed-share/

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Evelyn's Legs by Deb Achak

http://reallifemag.com/seductive-doom/

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Paul Pfeiffer, The Playroom, 2012

[chromeandlightning]

Chris Consani ‘84

[love1etter]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ7spNNlgsu/

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James Casebere, Subdivision with Spotlight. 1982

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[nathanjurgenson]

Suburbs are more often depicted as derelict and dangerous: The OA, Stranger Things, The Leftovers, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Ozarks, The Americans, It Follows, Get Out, Nightcrawler, and Spring Breakers all prominently feature scenes of unfinished, abandoned, and criminal suburbia. They feature nonplaces that were forgotten before they were even completed: half-built homes, desolate parking lots, and neighborhoods seemingly devoid of the wage-earning adults that have always been suburbs’ raison d’être. America is quickly getting used to the idea that the suburbs, like the city, can be the locus of fear, alienation, and crime.

The Authoritarian Surround  (via nathanjurgenson)

[surfacecurrents]

Susan Hiller, Night Waves Nine archival digital prints 2009

[an-overwhelming-question]

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[nathanjurgenson]

A quick search for the hashtag #nofilter on Instagram returns, as I write this, 169,415,808 photographs. Many of them are landscapes. Some are close-ups of flowers, trees, or handfuls of beach sand. Few are selfies. Most are sunsets, an event that occurs, literally, every day on earth. In the standard sunset photograph, the horizon is centered vertically — an equal field of murky land or water below an equally murky sky, and that brilliant wound of color scratched into the middle. It’s the color, I think, that people find so hard to believe, and what they want us to believe through their photographs. What #nofilter promises, ostensibly, is true colors, verified colors. This happened, #nofilter says; or, in a more familiar phrase: This is a true story.

Still Lives — Real Life (via nathanjurgenson)