Clayton Darnault

2366 days ago

By carving a space away from the growing necessity to record and collect life into database museums, temporary photography encourages an appreciation of the importance of experiencing the present for its own sake.

Pics and It Didn’t Happen

thenewinquiry.com

The tension between experience for its own sake and experience we pursue just to put on Facebook is reaching its breaking point. That breaking point is called Snapchat. It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art.