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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• MacDowall, Lachlan

Titel

Instafame : graffiti and street art in the Instagram era

Ort / Verlag

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Instafame charts the impact of Instagram - one of the world's most popular social media platforms - on visual culture in the mere eight years since its launch. MacDowell traces the intuitive connections between graffiti, street art, and Instagram, arguing that social media's unending battle for a viewer's attention is closely aligned with eye-catching ethos of unsanctioned public art. Beginning with the observation that the scroll of images on a sideways phone screen resembles nothing so much as graffiti seen through the windows of a moving train, Macdowell moves outward to give us a wide-ranging look at how Instagram has already effected a dramatic shift in the making and viewing of street art