Image-Event — Kate Middleton's photo

Images, truth, and post-AI ways of seeing

Let’s christen a new section.

This one is called ‘Image-Event’, after the work of one of my favourite visual anthropologist, Dr. Karen Strassler, who defined an image-event as:

a political process in which an image (or a constellation of related images) crystallizes otherwise inchoate and dispersed imaginings within a discrete and mobile visible form that becomes available for scrutiny, debate, and play as it circulates in public.

In other words, image-events make visible things that are otherwise often unsaid and invisible. They are as much about images as they are making social and political processes an image.

This section will be made of short comments on a current image-event that is shaping our visual landscape. I’ll keep these short, hot, and hopefully, insightful.

Ok, no more theory, let’s dive in.

This week, I want to talk about Kate Middleton FAKE photograph released Sunday on the @princeand…