Search for content, post, videos

Facebook: Pauline Auzou –Vacation Photos

Preview

You yourself started the countdown a few weeks before when you posted on Facebook, “I’ve got my tickets to Bali!” When the day came, Facebook geo-localized you at the airport. And where there’s vacation, there’s vacation photos.

In the 1980s, Richard Chalfen, a professor of anthropology at Temple University in Philadelphia, coined the term “Kodak culture” to describe how photography (these were the days of film cameras) is a means to capture important events like marriages, births and travel, a tool that allows one to share moments from our lives not only with other people, but with future generations as well. Today, putting photographs online can be the beginning of a conversation. As soon as the photos are uploaded, we wait to see who will make the first comment. We share these experiences in a playful way.

With the advent of digital cameras and the Internet, what was once confined to yellowing photo albums has achieved a new visibility. Family memory is becoming digital.
Facebook is a platform where we can control what is seen: users have the option to make public very personal events from their lives. In a few years, will our children still have our old family photo albums? Or will they simply call up our retro Facebook or other photosharing sites profiles from the 2010’s ?

Pauline Auzou

All the photos used in this article were taken at random from publicly available Facebook photo albums.

Create an account or log in to read more and see all pictures.

Install WebApp on iPhone
Install WebApp on Android