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Charles Moore was a news photographer who became a photojournalist and died a visual journalist — not because he changed, but because the technology, nomenclature and just about everything else involving his profession did.

“When we talk about time, we often use spatial metaphors like ‘I’m looking forward to seeing you’ or ‘I’m reflecting back on the past,’ ” said Lynden K. Miles, who conducted the study with his colleagues Louise K. Nind and C. Neil Macrae. “It was pleasing to us that we could take an abstract concept [...]

Scott McCloud’s invaluable book “Understanding Comics” sets the tone in this little explanation of interface graphics. “The more realistic something is, the harder it is to figure out the meaning.” ignore the code: Realism in UI Design.

Even the sturdiest of wall maps tend to have limited life spans, but this large, segmented map is so rare that for centuries it was uncertain if this copy even existed Exhibition Review – The Matteo Ricci World Map at the Library of Congress – NYTimes.com.

Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81 “The goal for the photographer is to be visually articulate. If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with [...]

“The truth is that the film object has already changed, from preproduction to projection. And the traditional theatrical experience that shaped how viewers looked at film and, by extension, the world, has been mutating for some time.” MANOHLA DARGIS – NYTimes.com.

Name misspelling(s) aside, Roberta Smith mentions Mary’s work in her year-end article on the Arts, slideshow included. “Finally, what might be called the liberation of art history that began in the 1970s has continued; new knowledge about and approaches to nonwestern, decorative, popular, folk and applied art forms have been grafted onto what was once [...]

“we have no calculus to unravel relations between what a picture shows and what it explains.” -Kenneth Baker via NYTimes.com.

“The story begins in the 1950s when computers, restricted up to then for military use, were introduced to universities and laboratories. Mathematicians and scientists started to experiment by using them to create graphic effects, as did artists and designers.” via Design – London Portrays Past and Future of Digital Art – NYTimes.com.