At the same time, I asked students to bring me pictures or documents, imagining that I might help start an image archive — something online that could one day be used for research and couldn't be destroyed by the Taliban or others who find photography incongruous with Islam.
"Woodward's prose is nimble," David Quammen wrote in these pages in 2002, and he is "especially knowledgeable about visual artists, both famous and obscure, who have documented or darkly imagined ruination".
Woodward is especially knowledgeable about visual artists, both famous and obscure, who have documented or darkly imagined ruination -- like Gustave Doré, in his engraving of a demolished London, Hubert Robert (also known as "Robert des Ruines, painter") and John Constable, who painted his gloomy "Hadleigh Castle" as an analgesic exercise after his wife died.
The result is an affecting mixture of family history, primary documents, and, more questionably, imagined encounters between Kim and an unsuitable boyfriend.
It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police.
Since the participants were asked to provide a written description of what they imagined the documents to represent (cf. "Value scenarios"), it was of interest to analyse whether the value prompts were effective.
One should never underestimate the educational value of films – and not just the worthy literary adaptations or bracing social documents our nannies imagine would be good for us.
"I think there's a temptation to fetishize documents and to imagine that if someone wants to withhold these pages they must be incredibly valuable, and that's not necessarily true," Aftergood told VICE News.
We imagined our great documents and their imposing concepts emerging out of figures as grand as the ideas they devised.
Brecht could hardly have imagined such a document: a capitalist enterprise that feeds on the misery of man trying as hard as it can to be sure that nothing is done to decrease that misery.
