Our Image-Saturated Society by Benjamin Lansky is a short but good read. The book is Benjamin’s Masters Thesis while studying at the Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London. I really enjoyed the book and Benjamin\’s personal works of art aligned with some of my own thoughts and photography. Although not mentioned I feel it closely aligns with a lot of Jean Baudrillard\’s work as well. The author mentions a lot of the same people I have studied and the works cited in this book are a great list of reading material. From John Berger to Walter Benjamin and Marshall McLuhan to Martin Heidegger he takes notes and responds to some great material. The most interesting part is how he connects his writing and ideas to his own photographic works. A sort of observation of photography with his own responses and photographic works. His body of work 3D>2D>3D is a project I have considered myself and I like how he executed it. Taking photographs of physical spaces or surfaces and then printing the photographs to scale and installing them in the physical space they came from. It\’s an interesting idea but more it presents a really interesting conversation about photography.
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