Kiku adatto biography

We live in a world flooded with images.

Kiku adatto biography

There has been an explosion of cell phone cameras, social networking sites, digital photography, blogs, and surveillance cameras, and we have a 24-hour news cycle that feeds on pictures.

In her new book, “Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op,” Kiku Adatto tries to make sense of this world.

Adatto, who is a scholar in residence at the Humanities Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a lecturer on social studies, chronicles the rise of America’s photo-op culture, which has been expanding since World War II.

“When the photograph was invented, it was celebrated as a powerful form of documenting, witnessing, and truth-telling,” says Adatto.

“Today our sensibility has changed. We pride ourselves on our knowledge that the camera can lie, that pictures can be fabricated, packaged, and manipulated.

Adatto argues that the “photo-op consciousness” is not always liberating.

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