Word: conscious
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...photography of Walker Evans and the darker moods and more ragged manner of Robert Frank's great 1958 book The Americans. That's exactly right. Faurer, who grew up in Philadelphia, never attended college or art school. He simply started taking pictures during the Depression, the era of socially conscious "concerned photography." But by the time he moved to New York in 1946, he was discovering a more personal style. If this was "concerned photography," it was concerned not with social conditions but psychic ones--boredom, isolation, acidity, glee, the feral thrusts of the libido and a weirdly sinister expectancy...
...only one I know, but there does appear to be something strange about it. The fundamental elements of our social network seem bogged down by the methods of examination and analysis that we learn in class. Harvard, from top-to-bottom, is the most self-conscious place I have ever encountered...
With the term self-conscious I do not mean to evoke images of insecure adolescence but rather an entirely more forceful breed of the phenomenon. Where the self-consciousness of middle school was tentative and hesitant, the self-consciousness of Harvard is forceful and confident. It is defined by an increased level of self-awareness and a heightened desire to bring our precision-ground sense of individuality to bear on the world...
...what you were saying, but…” It is rare to see two people engage each other in a conversation where both are actually listening and responding to each other. More often discussion is riddled with assumptions and misperceptions, as people talk past each other, too conscious of their own thoughts to leave room for consideration of the other?...
...curious thing about the Harvard community is that the effect of bringing together thousands of highly self-conscious students is slightly different than the one that the admissions committee probably intends. The architects of each Harvard class attempt to assemble a diversity of vibrant individuals with the hope that we will all learn from each other, a collection of dynamic people making each other stronger...