{"id":13210,"date":"2008-08-28T22:36:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T02:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13210"},"modified":"2014-01-20T22:12:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T03:12:34","slug":"school-daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/28\/school-daze\/","title":{"rendered":"School Daze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while heading home from a visit to the New York offices of the SCI FI Channel at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, I happened to pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Center of Photography<\/a>.  I&#8217;d often walked by the building  before, since my Dad used to work at McGraw-Hill, which was just a few blocks further up the Avenue of the Americas, but I&#8217;d never been moved to visit.  <\/p>\n<p>But this time, I noticed that one of the current exhibitions was  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan<\/i><\/a>, and since Irene and I had visited Japan last year, I was intrigued.  So I took a later train home than I might have and instead toured the museum.<\/p>\n<p>There were many interesting images on display, but the ones that interested me the most were by Tomoko Sawada.  Check out the photograph below, from her series &#8220;School Days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SchoolDays.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SchoolDays-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"SchoolDays\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SchoolDays-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SchoolDays.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something hypnotizing about the image, but until I read the descriptive materials, I didn&#8217;t realize what made the picture so unusual.  This particular aspect of the photo  was perhaps affecting on me on a subconscious level.<\/p>\n<p>Can you&#151;without rushing off to Google the answer&#151;figure out what I&#8217;m talking about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while heading home from a visit to the New York offices of the SCI FI Channel at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, I happened to pass the International Center of Photography. I&#8217;d often walked by the building before, since my Dad used to work at McGraw-Hill, which was just a few blocks further up the Avenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13212,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13210\/revisions\/13212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}