owldude:reck-lustt:We’re living in an era where capturing...

owldude:

reck-lustt:

We’re living in an era where capturing moments using our phones is more important than actually living these moments with whoever is beside us.

this. 

"A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacities to subjectivize reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs and strengthen them. Cameras define reality in two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for the masses) and as an object of surveillance (for the rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumption requires the unlimited production and consumption of images." -Susan Sontag, On Photography

And these concerns were voiced by Sontag in the 1970s, imagine how she would feel about facebook or tumblr. You are for sale everyday.

"The greatest danger in photography is taking something like queer culture and framing it in the context of mainstream culture—that one-to-one comparison. It’s fucked, it’s a lie, and it turns everything into a fucking Gap ad."- James Whitman, Art Criticism