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The shift.
The digital age has ushered in a new age of photography, but the shift has more to do with behaviors and attitudes than technology. Photography directly corresponds to reality; post-photography doesn’t. Photography captures to remember; post-photography captures to define. Photographers tell stories about photos; post-photographers tell stories with photos. Together these changes indicate a marked shift in the mindset of the people behind the camera.
The story.
Few factors have been more influential in the shift to post-photography than the popular photo-sharing site Flickr. In this essay, I explore the ways that Flickr has both shaped and been shaped by post-photography.
