I'm giving a presentation on photography in my class and I want to discuss mostly photography and the unreal - how the fashion/celeb/model/product industry has used photographs to manipulate what is 'real' and what isn't. Basically I want to talk about the beauty in photographs that makes the moment so much 'more' and surreal than real life - but how it also has a side where the over-processing and touch-ups that can make a person, place, or situation wholly unlike it really is - and the good and bad implications of that.

My Uni's library has more than 900 books on photography, and searches through scholarly journals and online databases are nothing but muddy. If anyone has any good resources, I'd be very thankful!



In other news...I'm stuck in Michigan. It's cold. I hate it. But I'm getting out soon. A little less than a year now and I can go anywhere I want. Portland, Seattle, St. Louis, Austin, Boston, Pittsburgh, New York, San Diego, San Fransisco, Denver, Flagstaff, Orlando, Los Angeles, Paolo Alto, Barcelona, Florence, Sienna, London, Kingston, Brisbane, Buenos Aires, Bangkok, Tokyo, Osaka, I'd be more than happy in any of these places. Any day now...