Kodak, after having literally invented the digital camera, failed to recognize that digital was quickly becoming the inevitable future of photography.

During Paris Fashion Week, we’ve observed the rise of a Getty Images aesthetic—a style of social media posting where individuals, particularly influencers and fashion insiders, use watermarked Getty Images as a symbol of status. It signals that they are part of high-fashion, red carpet, and exclusive event circuits, as captured by the industry’s mo... See more

Nostalgia, as Mark Fisher predicted, has never been more potent. We can’t stop longing for the past – and increasingly, even the very recent past, via the “nowstalgia” of rapid-cycling trends – at the expense of creating something genuinely novel.

In the 2010s many of our public spaces started to be molded, physically and literally, by the market advantage of luring patrons looking for highly Instagrammable shots. Businesses that once paid large sums of money to have photographs taken for advertisements that cost even more to run now had access to an army of free labor, taking pictures for f... See more