{"id":16150,"date":"2021-03-19T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=16150"},"modified":"2021-03-19T00:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T04:02:15","slug":"snapshots-of-liberty-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/03\/19\/snapshots-of-liberty-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots of Liberty Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently started a minicourse on the rhetoric of Instagram&#8211;yup, you read that right. Our first assignments were to read Annie Dillard&#8217;s <em>Seeing<\/em> and take three photos of things we&#8217;ve never seen before. Dillard describes a special type of observation as &#8220;a letting go. When I see this way I sway transfixed and emptied.&#8221; She speaks of dark and light, blindness, nature, and expectations. I wanted to take her perspective as I sought out compositions around me. Although I have walked up and down Liberty Street downtown hundreds of times, I tried to &#8220;let go&#8221; and open up my mind to details I had never noticed nor appreciated&#8211;like the fairy door at the bottom of the Michigan Theater, or the intricacies of Graffiti Alley. Below are a couple of black and white images I snapped.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16342\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4309-1024x763.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4309-1024x763.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4309-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4309-768x572.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16343\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4341-1024x716.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4341-1024x716.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4341-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4341-768x537.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4341.jpeg 1515w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16344\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0056-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0056-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0056-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0056-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0056.jpeg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16345\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4340-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4340-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4340-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4340-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_4340.jpeg 1576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently started a minicourse on the rhetoric of Instagram&#8211;yup, you read that right. Our first assignments were to read Annie Dillard&#8217;s Seeing and take three photos of things we&#8217;ve never seen before. Dillard describes a special type of observation as &#8220;a letting go. When I see this way I sway transfixed and emptied.&#8221; She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16348,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16150\/revisions\/16348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}