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Taking photographs and posting them on the net has become a key component of leisure fun and entertainment. Many of these billions of photographs are most likely subject to oblivion, but even if their makers completely forget about them they can still be unintentional and undiscovered masterpieces of photography, and they can play a role in the social network of the community. Let's come back to the Currywurst photographer one more time to examine this. Each of his fast food photographs comes with the name and address of the fast food place, a short commentary, and a rating of the respective dish. Thus a personal obsession turned into a potentially useful social activity for the benefit of a wider audience — it can spare people with similar tastes lots of disappointing experiences. The same is true for basically any field of human activity.
In our traditional understanding, photographs preserve individual and collective memory — that is allegedly their main function. People probably still work on this assumption, but in the age of online image hosting photography has started to play a new, multifaceted role. Photographs can be social networking tools enabling people to exchange experiences regarding nearly any conceivable subject. People can borrow other people's eyes if they want to find out about a remote island, a desirable location for a bachelor party, a traveller's view of a hotel room, a house they wish to rent or to buy, or a good place to enjoy a sausage. Aside from these simple utilitarian uses we can observe and easily imagine equivalent developments in fields like politics, journalism and art.
23.08.2008
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