Interestingly after writing the piece on the "Future of photography" (http://stevenbriggs7.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/future-of-photography.html ), I came across an interesting app which seems to be running entirely counter to the sense of "photograph everything". It's called "One Memento" and is an iPhone app which will only shoot a single photograph - http://pulse.me/s/dIkwC .
This is obviously a potentially gimmicky idea, but the refreshing point is that despite it's association (and dependence), on a device which is at the centre of the digitisation and ubiquitous nature of image distribution and image capture, it also points to a resonant, undying feeling of image capture as something unique, singular, to be cherished as valuable. Of the world as a fleeting thing which is somehow stilled in the capture of an image. And of the specialness of image capture and representation which is best expressed via abstinence and restraint from just capturing anything and everything, but instead carefully choosing the moment as if everything depended on it. Interesting.
This is obviously a potentially gimmicky idea, but the refreshing point is that despite it's association (and dependence), on a device which is at the centre of the digitisation and ubiquitous nature of image distribution and image capture, it also points to a resonant, undying feeling of image capture as something unique, singular, to be cherished as valuable. Of the world as a fleeting thing which is somehow stilled in the capture of an image. And of the specialness of image capture and representation which is best expressed via abstinence and restraint from just capturing anything and everything, but instead carefully choosing the moment as if everything depended on it. Interesting.
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