I know she’s not in the White House rn, but the tasty pixel pattern in this picture of Elizabeth Warren on Talking Points Memo caught my eye this morning. Until I noticed it was on her podium, too. And it’s also on the edges of her hair and hands. So it’s a Photoshop filter applied with a quick and somewhat dirty mask. Weird.
TPM doesn’t give a photo credit, but I searched up the original. Looks like it was taken Saturday, Sept. 19 at the 2015 Massachusetts Democratic Convention by Dave Roback of The Republican [please, oldest joke in Springfield, I’m sure].
That is what digital projected video looks like in 2015. And anyway, those pixels aren’t even pixels; it’s the moire pattern from four-color offset printing. Which has been used to approximate visible RGB pixels on a television screen.
Have I already thought about this image more than whoever hacked this thing together, or whoever decided to use it? Or was there a moment of contemplation, a decision, to make an image look more retro? And if so, did it involve someone who’s possibly too young to have seen either moire or visible pixels?
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the making of, by greg allen