Instagram is the narrative of now, I don’t feel particularly precious about them, I don’t tend to go back and look through old photos. It doesn’t matter that the shots I shoot with it are of lower resolution with a cameraphone lens, that they have filters, these are my transient photos (I understand this isn’t the case for everyone and Instamatic photos can be an art). I don’t need a central place where I can always find them, instead it’s a pooled visual stream of consciousness of myself and the people I know.
By the way, I’d posit that for most people, most of the time, this is what photography was like before Flickr.
Instagram and Flickr, the one where I refine my argument « Rev Dan Catt’s Blog (via iamdanw)
I need to dig deeper into this, because there’s an implicit notion I’m not in agreeance with about Flickr having “fallen short” or “not doing it” among non-pro photographers. Other than Yahoo neglect, I never felt that Flickr let me down. As an aside, I haven’t fully embraced the new world of permanow, where site architectures use hashbang notation for URL structure or don’t have permalink pages for things at all, archives are an afterthought, and manicured or auto-created “Timelines” pass for histories, and I’m not sure I’m going to like it.
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