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How smartphone photography has changed how we view art

How smartphone photography has changed how we view art

The lost art of truly seeing

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Gloria Mark
Nov 24, 2024
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Michelangelo’s David in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. Photo by Brian Banford, Pexels.

Three decades before the invention of smartphone cameras, Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking book On Photography was published in 1977. In one of its chapters, Sontag explores how tourists use the camera’s lens to engage with their surroundings, constantly searching…

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