Smartphones, Facebook, changing photography

Smartphones, Facebook, changing photography
Seacoastonline.com
He, too, had a large camera on tripod, but at least he had dry gelatin film to work with. The early years of photography were devoted to art and portraiture. The word "snapshot" did not exist. All that changed in the 20th century with the introduction ...

Poetry in the Air, Photography on the Road
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Poetry in the Air, Photography on the Road. ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Slide Show: Stock Photos from the DIS Image Studio : The New Yorker
By Jessie Wender
The Image Studio was created by DIS Magazine, a self-described “post-Internet lifestyle magazine about art, fashion and commerce.” When I was there, the core DIS ... We were attracted to the weirdness of stock photography. The generic ...
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JH Engström Photography Workshop - Aperture Foundation NY
By ApertureDigital
JH Engström Photography Workshop. For the past fifteen years, JH Engström, an internationally acclaimed photographer, has held workshops regularly all over Europe and has lectured at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Aperture Foundation NY

Florence Picture -- Italy Photo -- National Geographic Photo of the Day
See a photo of people walking across a bridge in Florence, Italy, from National Geographic.
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Photography in an Age of Smartphones | New Republic
Is photography dying? No, not exactly. But the mysteries of the darkroom are by some accounts nearly extinct. And in the age of the smartphone, the art of ...
www.newrepublic.com/.../aperture-magazine-relaunched-art-p...

Branding the Visual Web | Digiday: "One challenge for brands, however, is that some images work better in particular environments. Gap, for instance, has learned that shoes do well on Pinterest and polka dot patterns on Instagram. Images are clearly important to storytelling. But they’re also simply more effective at getting people’s attention when they’re used to a stream of information rushing past. Expedia, for instance, uses imagery in Facebook updates that makes people stop. An image of a beautiful beach scene in the dead of winter makes those in the frostier parts of the country pay more attention — and be more likely to convert, according to Sarah Gavin, director of social media at Expedia. “The way I would put it is, a picture is worth a thousand words,” she said. “Especially nowadays, when people have less of an attention span, we are finding that people will actually transact when the image is inspiring enough.”"

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