amolitor
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- Joined
- May 18, 2012
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The thing that's really working away in my mind now is the problem of the Giant River of Digital Images.
We're seeing millions of photographs being made and shared on a more or less daily basis. I don't know if it's a million a minute of a million a week, but that hardly matters. There's a simply mind boggling amount of imagery being produced and shoveled out to the web minute by minute. What are the implications of this limitless river of amateurish snapshottery for:
- commercial work. We're swimming in a huge sea of specific types of imagery. That's got to affect how we view photographs in general, which impacts commercial work
- art. Will art pick up ideas and themes from the river? If so, which ones?
- personal work. How are the various things at play in this immense stream of imagery bouncing around and affecting the other iPhone users shooting and putting things into it?
- etc..
We're seeing millions of photographs being made and shared on a more or less daily basis. I don't know if it's a million a minute of a million a week, but that hardly matters. There's a simply mind boggling amount of imagery being produced and shoveled out to the web minute by minute. What are the implications of this limitless river of amateurish snapshottery for:
- commercial work. We're swimming in a huge sea of specific types of imagery. That's got to affect how we view photographs in general, which impacts commercial work
- art. Will art pick up ideas and themes from the river? If so, which ones?
- personal work. How are the various things at play in this immense stream of imagery bouncing around and affecting the other iPhone users shooting and putting things into it?
- etc..