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Stripped: Laura Carton

Originally written by Terin Talarico for Illiterate Media Already bored with internet porn by the late 90’s, New York-based Laura Carton found herself asking, “Why?” and from that frame of mind arose her photographic series, Stripped. Using Photoshop to erase the human figures from a variety of pornographic film stills, Carton creates banal, utopian, and slightly off-kilter...

Feb 13th

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Democratic Vistas: Keith Davis Young and Matthew...

Originally written by Terin Talarico for Illiterate Media Now, more than ever, our everyday lives and experiences are seen as fodder for digital display, archive and abstraction on the internet - Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Tumblr, Flickr. This unmediated access is proof of the internet’s democracy; it allows a variety of participants to create and share their own content, relying on the virtue...

Feb 13th

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Little Wild Girl: Cari Ann Wayman

Originally written by Terin Talarico for Illiterate Media Perhaps one of the most alluring and misinterpreted books of the 20th century, Nabokov’s Lolita deconstructs the nature of desire, beauty, aestheticism and eroticism, particularly in the United States. In 1955, Lolita was a description of just how pornographic American culture was (and is), even before it fully developed into the...

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Eli Nixon: Private Investigator

Originally written by Terin Talarico for Illiterate Media Intrinsic to the value of photography since the 19th century is the belief in the realism of the medium and the camera as a truth-device. Since the mid 20th century, it has been argued by critics such as Alan Trachtenberg, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag that the photograph only records the surface appearance of people and events; the...

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