Intolerable Beauty
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16 November 2009
This podcast with photographer Chris Jordan at the New York Review of Books jarred me a bit, unexpectedly. Jordan took photographs of baby albatross (albatrosses?) on Midway Island who’d ingested so much plastic that it killed them; the photos are “straight,” i.e. they are not posed or art-directed, and are truly disturbing.
A 2003-05 exhibit of Jordan’s was entitled “Intolerable Beauty.” In the podcast, he talks about that title, and the relationship between aesthetics and activism. Jordan’s passion is compelling. Give him a listen.
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