Happy Friday,
The “endless cruise” has come to a sudden end in Cambodia.
Framing devices shape how the viewer sees the subject. Nowhere is this more literal than in visual mediums. The Internet has recently been awash in coverage of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, subject of the new film You Can See Everything. In this non-spoiler review, Polina Pompliano breaks down how the film shapes the viewer’s perceptions through subtle (or not-so-subtle) choices like camera angles, pans, and lighting. Social psychology discusses cognitive biases; in this film review, we look at ways literal shifts in perspective change the way we perceive the subject.
How a 19th-century journalist resurrected interest in Vermeer.
Italian police have tracked down $200 million worth of stolen art with the aid of AI.
Albrecht Durer’s beautiful, unrealized plans for a monument to the Vanquished Peasants, victims in Germany’s Peasant War.
Currently reading: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Have a great weekend.
Image: from “Madame B Album”. Madame B. Ca 1870.
Sourced from the Public Domain Image Archive / Art Institute Chicago
