In 1980s NYC we understood David Byrne’s suit to be understood a”zoom suit” - a fashion thing loaded with meaning, way more meaning than I knew at the time. I was/am a Talking Heads fan, and as I think about Byrne’s zoot suit now and his empty responses about, it makes me think, sadly, he was just one more white guy blindly co-opting black culture...and apparently still isn’t bothering to go into any deeper self reflection of his own choices. I agree with you, Jenn, we oughta care about images.
Ah-ha! You're introducing a whole new layer of meaning that I was not aware of. Which I think connects back to the idea that there is no one image-story, but a bunch of interacting image-stories.
In 1980s NYC we understood David Byrne’s suit to be understood a”zoom suit” - a fashion thing loaded with meaning, way more meaning than I knew at the time. I was/am a Talking Heads fan, and as I think about Byrne’s zoot suit now and his empty responses about, it makes me think, sadly, he was just one more white guy blindly co-opting black culture...and apparently still isn’t bothering to go into any deeper self reflection of his own choices. I agree with you, Jenn, we oughta care about images.
Ah-ha! You're introducing a whole new layer of meaning that I was not aware of. Which I think connects back to the idea that there is no one image-story, but a bunch of interacting image-stories.