I picked up a copy of Lisa Bloom's book, THINK: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World, and haven't been able to put it down since I started reading it (well, except when I took a short nap, BUT that was only because I didn't get very much sleep at yearbook camp). I am astounded by the problems in America and how out of touch its citizens are. We coddle kids and push them along the system in our failing school system. Women's perceptions and priorities are distorted. It brought up the point that breast augmentations are rapidly becoming a popular high school graduation present. Ugh. How devastating. It referred to the fact that every, every celebrity image in magazines are Photoshop-ed, which made me think of Adam Turman's TED video talking about his photography that touches on this issue.
My goal for this semester is make my students smarter about what's happening in the world. To make them aware of their decisions and how their artwork and photography can expose these twisted realities. Turman's work would be wonderful to study in class, whether it was for ethics or how photographers show social issues.
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