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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Jessica Helfand, "Face: A Visual Odyssey" (MIT Press, 2019)
Description: Today I talked to Jessica Helfand about her new book Face: A Visual Odyssey (MIT Press, 2019)Helfand is a designer, artist, and author. She’s taught at Yale University for more than 20 years, cofounded Design Observer, and has had additional roles at a variety of institutions ranging from the American Academy in Rome to the California Institute of Technology.We’ve always visited churches and museums to gaze at faces. So what’s now changed? Today, about two billion images get uploaded daily to social media – of which nearly 100 million are estimated to be selfies. As Daniel B...