rebecca a. adelman, ph.d.

writer, professor, and scholarly tinkerer at the intersections of visual culture, militarism, and affect

I struggled for a long time to make sense of this photo, and came up with this for Reading the Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2017/04/tefillin-photo/.

(photo: Elinor Carucci for The New York Times. caption: A Footsteps member removes his tefillin, a ritual object worn during prayers.)

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