The Post Cool

The photograph itself, even an artilyka manipulated one, has become so cheap and ubiquitous that it’s no longer of much value. But the experience of sharing it is, and that’s what Facebook is in the business of encouraging us to do

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Karen Rosenberg | Everyone’s Lives, in Pictures

New York Times | April 22, 2012

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted

—Susan Sontag | On Photography

Texting and e-mail and posting let us present the self we want to be. This means we can edit. And if we wish to, we can delete. Or retouch: the voice, the flesh, the face, the body. Not too much, not too little- just right.

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Andrew F. March | The Flight From Conversation

New York Times | April 22