11/19/2017
"This was a very unsatisfying realization: the photos on Instagram were cheap, quick pixels that were rather instantaneously digested, critiqued, and discarded."
Posting photos of family & adventures, I get it, Facebook/Instagram are like digital scrapbooks you get to share with your friends and family. But going out in the world and taking photos of photography, that's what plagues me. Aside from not making time for photography, most of the time I just snap a photo quick because of the convenience of the cell phone camera. And why take a photo of that double rainbow, when I can just enjoy it not behind a lens/screen, and then see half a dozen friends post it on their feed in .36 seconds? Maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but as a "photographer" I'm pretty sure I'm done. And I'm ok with that.
There are photographers who make work about photography—the act of making a picture is primary rather than the picture itself, seeing how the world looks photographed by them, etc. We learned about them in school. We teach their images and ideas in our classrooms. Our relationship with photographs h...
