The popularity of Instagram, the photo sharing application that adds 'vintage' filters to each photo, is to me another indication of that today's connected generation also has a nostalgic want for a simpler life.
I won't theorise too deeply about this, but I do think that with world markets trembling, youth unemployment consistently increasing and the unfulfilled promises of university degrees there is a wanting for our memories of these times to be more rosy than they actually are.
Using applications like Instagram to remember today's ambivalence with sunbursts, overexposures and hazy blurs, this unfulfilled generation is in effect adding the layer of promise of the post-war 40/50s where these giant leaps in instant photographs were first seen.
The irony that it has taken technology developed in this generation to take today's memories back into a more promising generation has not been lost.
2 comments:
This are excelent ideas, I am going to apply your ideas to my website Men's Underwear as we try to use publicity photographs as artistical as we can, in spite of the product. Thanks for your ideas.
very insightful, and i agree.
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