Camera-phone Lucida

Jacob Mikanowski | The Point | 10th August 2016

Instagram viewed in the context of art history. The first selfie was a Renaissance carving. The first food pictures were seventeenth century Dutch still lifes. Romanticism gave us dogs playing in the grass. Instagram delivers what great artists have always found fascinating – “the lives of the people around us, and those of people we’ve never met.”

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