{"id":256,"date":"2014-06-09T20:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T04:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2014-06-09T20:21:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T04:21:29","slug":"my-instagram-process-versus-my-photographic-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/09\/my-instagram-process-versus-my-photographic-process\/","title":{"rendered":"My Instagram Process versus My Photographic Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Instagram is not photography… It is not a photograph unless you print it (on paper).” I first heard this idea from Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Herman<\/a>. This sort of photographic traditionalism or conservatism employs a subtle metaphysic. How could this be true? It is true in the sense that before photography not every portrait was considered a painting. A certain intent and symbolism is required to transform a portrait into a painting.<\/p>\n

Yet there is more than just a classical metaphysical distinction between a portrait and a painting, and a mobile snap and a photograph, respectively. Social media and consciousness of an audience is always in the background. A mobile snap cannot be divorced from branding, marketing and technology as well as the quotidian Zeitgeist of the Internet.<\/p>\n

A photograph will lack the enumerated background of a mobile snap but invites the pantheon of traditional critique and avant garde institutions.<\/p>\n

When I create a photograph, given that I learned photography in the 1990s, I am always comparing it to the masters. My photographs are always already – to use the Heideggerian phrase – not good enough.<\/p>\n

When I Instagram, big data analytics comes into play. I can always do better through social media optimizations. It doesn’t have to be art.<\/p>\n

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Betty 1998 by Gerhard Richter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Instagram is not photography… It is not a photograph unless you print it (on paper).” I first heard this idea from Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Herman. This sort of photographic traditionalism or conservatism employs a subtle metaphysic. How could this be true? It is true in the sense that before photography not every portrait was considered a painting. … Continue reading My Instagram Process versus My Photographic Process<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}