Using the high technologic advantages of the 21st century we all use smartphones to document our everyday life. All the time you find new apps that pimp your camera to create new visual types of photography. Some of them might be useful like self-timer or snapseed for quick postprocess, others are more a pain in the ass like instagramm itself.

Nowadays it’s possible to build up whole virtual environments snapping around your phone using apps like photosynth from Microsoft. When I discovered it two years ago I was really impressed what you can do with this incredible software, 2013 it got even better because CCDs will capture more details, lower distortion, have higher dynamic contrast and better noise reduction.

But thats not all: In the large mass of image data of the future internet it will be possible to create a whole new world of photography as the art of putting things together and rearrange the time and place. It’ll be possible to go to a place to capture a full depth panorama using a lightfield camera (or smartphone).

Afterwards you’ll be able to look for your frame and focus using on the picture you want using a software. When you look at the history of photography you’ll always find a movement that has been pushed by the development of new techniques, e.g. large telescopes, spy satellites, nightvision, electron microscope. The fact that digital photography came up was because NASA decided to develop a technique to send a picture over a large distance to the earth.

First they did it analog with tiny capsules wearing a parachute, then they had video tubes, which was the first electronic signal they could send to earth and whoop, there was surface of the moon on the screen. After decades of military developing it became a civil project by the well known Eastman Kodak and so on.

The late works from the Becher student Thomas Ruff is about the interface between found footage and his own interpretation of this picture. It’s not far away from taking a big panorama and cutting out your little candy spots you like to frame. Ruff takes those scientific photo evidences of big Mars or Saturn Landscapes (mostly Courtesy of Nasa) and stitches them new together to set up his own new work.

Historical there might be a similar interaction between photography and science now as in the 19th century (when analog came up) and in the 20th century (when digital came up).

In our everyday life we take tons and tons of snapshot, without having big thoughts about what we’re photographing, but we do. This digital memory will forget, because hard disks crash and then there will be nothing to remember.

The post The future of Instagramm appeared first on Lost At E Minor: For creative people.