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Le conseguenze dei nostri gesti: Chris Jordan@TED

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L'artista Chris Jordan ci mostra una visione pietrificante della cultura occidentale. Le sue grandi foto "illustrano" statistiche quasi inimmaginabili, come il numero di tazzine di carta che consumiamo ogni giorno.

Chris Jordan runs the numbers on modern American life -- making large-format, long-zoom artwork from the most mindblowing data about our stuff. Full bio »

Translated into Italian by Michele Gianella
Reviewed by Francesca Bertolotto
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