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...Blind photography: the very concept sounds like an oxymoron. But an intriguing and often striking exhibition of photographs in Riverside, California, argues that it emanates from the core of contemporary art. The show "Sight Unseen," at the California Museum of Photography until Aug. 29, features everything from underwater scenes off Catalina Island, transvestites in New Orleans and Braille-enhanced black-and-whites as well as portraits, nudes, landscapes, travel shots, abstracts, collages, and everything else you might expect from a "sighted" photographer. Except the subtext and context is blindness: the photographers are legally blind, some born without sight or with...
...whole trajectory of modern art for the last 100 years has been toward the concept of mental construction, and blind photography comes from that place," says the show's "sighted" curator Douglas McCulloh, himself a photographer. "They're creating that image in their head first - really elaborate, fully realized visions - and then bringing some version of that vision into the world for the rest of us to see." A sample of the photographs posted by TIME.com received a huge amount of attention. (See pictures by blind photographers here...
...films (All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Bad Education and Volver) have been festival highlights. Oscar-winner Penélope Cruz makes her fourth appearance in an Almodóvar film with Broken Embraces, a time-spanning tale of a film director (Lluís Homar) who goes blind and loses the love of his life (Cruz). (Watch a TIME video with Almodóvar and Cruz...
Harvard junior varsity athletes said they were “blind-sided” Monday when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced that three JV men’s sports—baseball, basketball, and ice hockey—would be cut with the intent of transforming the teams into club programs next year. “This was kind of out of nowhere,” said Matthew S. Coe-Odess ’12, a member of the JV baseball team. “Our captain told us that no one had contacted...
...Beginning this past fall, BrunoBooks began taking information from the Coop’s Web site rather than the store itself. But rather than turning a blind eye to BrunoBooks’ practices, Barnes & Noble’s cease and desist letter is now threatening to press charges against what Staff calls an “analogous action...