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Illustrating the Gap: How to Document What Cannot Be Shown
Uprootedness, a philosopher, a filmmaker and a photographer
Mar 24
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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Virginia Woolf and the Image of Distraction
When the spectacle is loud enough, thinking feels beside the point
Mar 10
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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Pictures & Visual Literacy: Part 4 in a Series for the AI Age
The Extraordinary Vision of Hannah Maynard
Mar 6
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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Letters, Lipstick, and Pictures
A conversation with Lydia Panas on Letters to My Mother, and an invitation to meet the artist in real time
Mar 3
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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February 2026
Your North Star Does Not Move
What the Epstein files, a lawyer on Instagram, images and a fixed star in the sky have to do with each other
Feb 24
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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Pictures & Visual Literacy: Part 3 in a Series for the AI Age
The Expert Who Could Not See, Two Working-Class Girls, a Century of Erasure, and the AI We Are Building Now
Feb 20
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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Works of Photography for the Year of the Fire Horse
On Thresholds, Attention, and the Images We Are Not Making - Yet
Feb 17
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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Pictures & Visual Literacy: Part 2 in a Series for the AI Age
Making History By Standing Still
Feb 13
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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The Image Lives in Our Collective Memory
Documentation, Witness, and the Work That Remains Beyond the Image
Feb 10
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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Pictures & Visual Literacy Part 1: Introducing a Series for the AI Age
The First Photograph Took Three Days to Make One Impossible Moment
Feb 6
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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The Livestream and a Visual Grammar of Horror
A 19th century inversion of civil rights protections and a picture we will not soon forget.
Feb 3
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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January 2026
Photographs Against Power
Visual literacy when the White House calls falsified images "memes"
Jan 26
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Lesly Deschler Canossi
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