How we all became screen obsessivesPhones, TV and games constantly vie for our attention — but how much do they add to our lives?Paul Graham’s photographs reveal people transfixed by televisionThese pictures show how, before the smartphone, we were already in thrall to the small screenEve Arnold’s haunting photographs of Marilyn Monroe and ‘The Misfits’Portraits taken on the set of the classic film capture the emotional fragility of its troubled starsThe TV in the cupboard: Olivia Laing on how television infiltrates our subconscious‘I feasted on “Game of Thrones” over a few dense weeks. During this time I dreamed entirely inside the show’From arcades to political avatars: the evolution of video games since the 1980sArtists have long been drawn to gaming and its ability to unite and divide usThe agony and ecstasy of smashing your smartphone screenAt times when I’m anxious, I feel my phone like a weight. It’s a portal to infinite misreadings’More from this SeriesEvery text tells a story: Jeff Mermelstein’s photos of other people’s messagesFrom the mundane to the absurd, texts illuminate the range of the human conditionHiroshi Sugimoto: how I photographed an entire movie in a single frameWhat happened when the artist snuck a large-format camera into a run-down cinemaSameer Raichur captures the elation of Kannada moviegoing in IndiaThe release of a so-called Sandalwood film is the cue for performative celebrationsGeoff Dyer: ‘Dark Waters’ and how the paranoid style seeped into cinemaA set of visual conventions have entered the filmic water table itselfAmalia Ulman: why I staged my own Instagram meltdownWhat a fictionalised online performance revealed about the way we view women onlineChristopher Nunn: when TVs became a weapon of war in UkraineWhen Russian troops seized Crimea in 2014, the television sets in people’s homes became a crucial propaganda toolMy life as a video-game gnome mage‘In World of Warcraft, I was projecting a version of myself that was free of adolescent burdens’
How we all became screen obsessivesPhones, TV and games constantly vie for our attention — but how much do they add to our lives?Paul Graham’s photographs reveal people transfixed by televisionThese pictures show how, before the smartphone, we were already in thrall to the small screenEve Arnold’s haunting photographs of Marilyn Monroe and ‘The Misfits’Portraits taken on the set of the classic film capture the emotional fragility of its troubled starsThe TV in the cupboard: Olivia Laing on how television infiltrates our subconscious‘I feasted on “Game of Thrones” over a few dense weeks. During this time I dreamed entirely inside the show’From arcades to political avatars: the evolution of video games since the 1980sArtists have long been drawn to gaming and its ability to unite and divide usThe agony and ecstasy of smashing your smartphone screenAt times when I’m anxious, I feel my phone like a weight. It’s a portal to infinite misreadings’More from this SeriesEvery text tells a story: Jeff Mermelstein’s photos of other people’s messagesFrom the mundane to the absurd, texts illuminate the range of the human conditionHiroshi Sugimoto: how I photographed an entire movie in a single frameWhat happened when the artist snuck a large-format camera into a run-down cinemaSameer Raichur captures the elation of Kannada moviegoing in IndiaThe release of a so-called Sandalwood film is the cue for performative celebrationsGeoff Dyer: ‘Dark Waters’ and how the paranoid style seeped into cinemaA set of visual conventions have entered the filmic water table itselfAmalia Ulman: why I staged my own Instagram meltdownWhat a fictionalised online performance revealed about the way we view women onlineChristopher Nunn: when TVs became a weapon of war in UkraineWhen Russian troops seized Crimea in 2014, the television sets in people’s homes became a crucial propaganda toolMy life as a video-game gnome mage‘In World of Warcraft, I was projecting a version of myself that was free of adolescent burdens’
