Death of an iCon

The iconic iPhone. The iconic iPod. The iconic Steve Jobs. Rarely has the perception of an individual been so synonymous with the perception of a line of products, commodities, material objects. In this blog post I want to explore how this slippage between individual and object is largely due to how both are presented to…

Voyeurism, Fantasy and the Anonymous Subway Photographer

A new website called Tubecrush.net gives women the opportunity to photograph handsome guys they come across on the London underground. Photographs are usually taken with a mobile phone camera allowing the photographer to remain anonymous and undiscovered in the act of photographing. Tubecrush then categorizes these photographs in groups which tend to focus or relate…