Hyper-connectivity

Photographs as a substitution for presence/in real life connection.

“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs
is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.”
— Susan Sontag, On Photography

Photographs, she argued, are rarely innocent: they turn experience into an object that can be owned, a world to be collected.

Something to think about in social contexts, in particular at social events such as social dances - are people coming to experience and connect vs consume and own.