Cogito Ergo Sum
1) Instagram has always kind of bothered me, though it has been used for many images I’ve enjoyed. It’s hard for me to accept that these shared and widely understood ideas of beauty and poignancy as rendered through specific “distressed” visual cues are something that a few…
It’s best not to think about it too much, I guess. Because if you over think digital photography (which, as an art history major, I tend to do), you’ll get upset that the technique needed isn’t as hands on and “technical” in the traditional sense (that sounds, and probably is, redundant), and that there’s a lack of pure “talent” and luck involved. But then again, you could say that any image (or any piece of art, for that matter) that is considered beautiful, regardless of the means by which it was created, is a product of luck and circumstance. In any case, Instagram is just another way for people to validate, confirm, and elevate their own existence:
“I tweet, therefore I am.”
