Taking a photograph on a camera use to be one of the most magical thing that gave us memories that we could hold onto forever. The pictures that were taken, no matter the quality was never changed in anyway.As the years have gone by and technology has increased tremendously there has been new sites where photos could be added online such as MySpace and Facebook and today Instagram where the photographs are taken and made into extravagant pictures for millions to see. I think with Instagram you are able to see more photographs in all aspects and areas such as: pictures with friends, food, places, animals, etc. We are able to see more photographs in a day with an app than we were before Instagram was ever made. Instagram’s also takes pictures that you take and allows the picture to be altered. The color can change, you can cut something out, photo shop something into it. Instagram takes the simplicity of a photograph and makes it into a complex picture where hundreds and thousands of people are subjected to it. When you take a photograph it is more authentic and true to what the moment was. A photograph is able to show simplicity and a clam about the picture itself.
Kenzi, this is a great example. Instagram, and similar apps, have remediated the photograph as a medium so much that even some of the basic assumptions about photography (namely, a picture is static) are changing. My biggest qualm with Instagram is about the ownership of photos. If you take a picture and post it to Instagram, do you really own it anymore? The question is more complicated than you might think. Also, Instagram centralizes expression: in previous generations, you shared photos with family and friends various was: through albums, through scrapbooks, etc, but the process of sharing was decentered. Now, it all happens through Instagram. Does that mean Instagram owns the experience of memory? Interesting things to think about.