Blog post #1b

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"This is the age of sourceless images, 'just pictures,' itinerate images, divorced from their original contexts, circulating in digital space with completely fungible dimensions, colors, and resolutions, none unique or expressive, defeating the mind's ability to organize them all and forming a kind of atmosphere." [p.12]

I find all those "just pictures" photographs to be quite interesting. It incorporates a randomness into images, possibly so random that you could hardly notice in everyday life unless you randomly capture a moment of it.

These are pictures that I don't even remember taking, or where they were taken. They are "just pictures," divorced from their original contexts, but unique and expressive. They are random pieces of time, capturing memories of everyday life that's often go unnoticed.






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