What few seem to understand about this ongoing Instagram conversation is that from around 1890, when Kodak introduced photography to the masses, vernacular photography has always been that curious mix of wonderful moments mixed with what others might regard as 'dross', rubbish, visual flotsam….
Instagram is just the latest iteration of what used to be 'let's try and stay awake and interested as John and Sally show us a 2hr slideshow of their holiday snaps whilst they feed us finger-food they've discovered in the latest edition of Good Housekeeping magazine'.
At least now I can choose not to look at such photographs, click away and find something more interesting. And I don't have to endure the prawn-flavoured Primula cheese squeezed onto limp Ritz biscuits.
The only thing that is 'new' about this phenomenon is the global reach of the 'boring slideshow round at John and Sally's house'.
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26 Kinds Of Instagram Photos The World Can Live Without
If Instagram is a reflection of life, then life is meaningless. Here is a list of all the mundane things that people feel the need to take a hazy photo of and transmit out into the world.
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Rupert Wood
July 24, 2012
lol well put! Tho if we were around at John & Sally's we'd maybe have some fun smearing different kinds of gunk on the projector lens to give their pics an interesting/cool/retro filter effect!
Can't stand #Instacrap myself, so very few people using it even moderately well!
Alfie Goodrich
July 24, 2012
+Rupert Wood I use it a lot, as a way of capturing my 'stream of visual consciousness'. I like the square format. I like that it offers a set of limited parameters. I never shoot or process my shots in other apps and then load them into Instagram. For me it's pick up, shoot, post. For me it's like having an old Polaroid Land Camera attached to a global publishing deal, with instant distribution. That rocks. Much rather that than pay $25 for a pack of 8 pieces of instant film from the Impossible Project. Film which is, I have to say, fucking terrible quality. Those Impossible Project people have marketed themselves wonderfully: yeah, lets amp-up the retro angle to convince people to pay a shitload of cash for just 8 shots-worth of crappy film.
Alex Gage
July 24, 2012
So true…
Kelli Seeger Kim
August 17, 2012
Everything about this post is awesome.