Sydney Morning Herald piece on how cellphones with built-in digital cameras will change the role photographs play in our lives:
Until now, popular interest in photography has been in the long-term preservation of memories in treasured family albums. But with camera phones, the focus is more on sharing than storing. “The images will be used to connect with one another, but they will be incredibly disposable. It is not about lasting memories,” says Dr Palmer, of Melbourne University. Alasdair Foster, director of the Australian Centre for Photography, says: “It won’t be about quality, although quality will get better.” Rather, he says, “picture messaging” is a natural extension of the compressed language of text messaging. “It’s about the transmission of an idea, or a moment, at that moment.”
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