It portrays people "lethargic" and "submissive" watching TV - 20minutos.es

2012 viewers around the world saw every day an average of three hours and 17 minutes of TV . In Europe we are above this average and we touch the four hours (3:55), Romania is the head of the list with five hours and in Spain we were a little lower, with four and a quarter hours. What is called is the preferred genre entertainment (41%). Fiction is ten points below.

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Although television addiction is not yet diagnosed as a psychological disorder, experts believe that will soon be, as it does not differ from the toxicity caused by addictive gambling or some drugs. Socially, the problem is equally serious, and that television causes isolation, passive and alienated behavior, not to mention the loss of private-personal time: an average person will have spent nine years of his life to the screen when you turn 75 years .

“Hypnotism”

A study of American universities Stanford and Missouri found that television language currently a very fast mount, constant movement of the camera, great sound effects … – explains the feeling of “hypnotism” most of the viewers experience to the screen, derived from the frenzy conditioning that monitors emerging performed on body functioning cerebral blood vessels are most active while the rest of the body slows.

photograph American student Michelle Norris felt subjugated by persopnas “lethargic” and “submissive” to watch television. “Stillness is similar to sleep, but the look is full of light,” he says to explain the fascination that led her to develop the project of portraits Dormant ( Lethargic ).

class=”imp”> The photographer let the elijieran portrayed your favorite The photographer decided to make portraits of some of his friends and acquaintances while watching TV. He tried to make his presence was not a filter or a bother letting them choose their favorite programs, thus ensuring that the viewer condition was palpable. The photos not intended to be a cultural critique , but a documentary observation exercise.

“A country extanjero”

“ Dormant is like a foreign country, a place I visited frequently but that does not interest us as a country. These people are not growing, they are arrested, protected in their homes, their beds and their television, “says Norris, who decided to mount each portrait as a diptych: in one half appears the viewer in the foreground, his eyes illuminated by phosphorescence signals emitting cathode, and in the other we see extreme magnification the program you are watching, as an abstraction of color pixels that seem random and has no rational meaning.

class=”quote_new”> What we see is an intimate moment in the distance “The state of tranquility seems to indicate that sleep, but we are faced with portraits of people whose eyes light emanates . What we see is a moment of intimacy between the audience and the characters of the programs, an intimacy in the distance, “says the author of the project,