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The Art of the Assignment

An unspoken charge given to arts educators is that we inspire in our students an enthusiasm and interest in our craft, provoking and… Photo educators share the best assignments they were given as students and the best assignments that they have given to students.

The Persistence of Memory

What undergirds the aesthetics of violence? To what do we ascribe the desire to mark, interrupt, violate those whose beauty we find, as Duras does above "too much?" And does the object of violence need beauty for violence to be bestowed upon it? Is violence a state of mind for the bearer of it, or i

Words About Pictures: The Ugly Carnival

In any case, I woke up thinking about this image taken by Magnum photo agency founder Robert Capa. It shows a woman carrying a baby, head shorn, being marched through the streets in the most literal walk of shame ever, jeered at (and likely worse) by French partisans closing in on every side of her.