Instragram, Facebook and photography in the Internet age

Why Zuck paid $1 billion for an app that takes pictures like a $15 camera.

Photographs by Josh Marcotte

We use advanced technology to recreate the low tech warmth of yesteryear. We share personal photos with perfect strangers. Everyone’s now a photographer, a publisher, an artist. Digital photographs are the psychedelics of a new generation, able to alter reality without 12 hours of down time.



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