Artist's Talk: Chris Jordan on "Running the Numbers"
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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
An Artist's Talk with Chris Jordan about his Running the Numbers series. Sociologists tell us that the human mind cannot meaningfully grasp numbers higher than a few thousand. Yet, understanding the consequences of our choices requires us to comprehend the incremental effect of millions or billions of small acts. Photographer Chris Jordan's large-format prints, assembled from thousands of smaller photographs, dramatically translate the raw language of statistics into powerful images of global mass culture that we can respond to emotionally.
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