FIGURE 18.1 Untitled. © Henry Aragoncillo
CHAPTER 18 Recycling
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS website makes available a treasure trove of copyright-free historic files that image makers can download. Such works can be recycled by being transformed or combined with other work (Figure 18.1).
This form of recycling represents a specific example of visual literacy that interests me, both conceptually and in relation to our society’s energy consumption. The server farms, which house our digital files, are extremely power hungry, running at a hundred percent capacity all the time, with backups ...
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