Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Phone: 650-723-4177
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Consider the humble handle. Most likely you don’t consider it, but you do use one every time you drink a cup of coffee, lift a suitcase or open a cabinet. The German sociologist Georg Simmel wrote an entire treatise, “The Handle,” in 1911, calling attention to the fact that it is both a functional and aesthetic object.
Innovative photo artists from around the world are responding to the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch marked by human activities.