PHOTOS ON PHOTOS

With the advent of mega pixel smartphones and pic sharing sites, the epidemic of unfiltered imagery proceeds unabated. What's ultimately going to happen to all this visual effluvia?  Hard drives in the basement?  Overcrowded server clouds raining imagery?  

Who knows.  We're in the process of developing a new digital visual vocabulary. Media tools are being taught and learned seemingly in cradle these days.  But looking back,  it's fun to note that long before the selfie craze, people were contorting themselves to make that perfect (or not so perfect) picture. 

The geography of picture-taking has always interested me--where and (who knows) why people frame their subjects and how they unknowingly arrange themselves as they're taking them, makes for some great visual antics and puns.