The Electro-Library

Short Circuits #1: Conversation with Teju Cole

May 21st, 2019  |  Season 2  |  26 mins 20 secs

creativity, freedom, hunger, identity, nigeria, race, teju cole, writing

Photography (Part Two)

May 8th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 45 secs

amra brooks, camera, ethan canin, italo calvino, john berger, memory, orson welles, photography, roland barthes, september 11, time, vladimir nabokov, wislawa szymborska

Part two of our two-part series on photography.

Photography (Part One)

April 4th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  44 mins 32 secs

balzac, camera, daguerreotype, eco, emerson, italy, joanna mcnaney stein, memory, photography, sontag

What happens when we take a photograph? What happens when we capture light on paper, in emulsion, or in pixels and look, across a gulf of time, at these fragments of the past? What gets in the frame and what lies just beyond? If, as John Berger notes, “photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a certain situation,” then what can photographs tell us about the choices we make and why we make them?