This gigantic pile of 350,000 Flickr photos is now art

This gigantic pile of 350,000 Flickr photos is now art

5 years ago
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https://www.cnet.com/news/this-gigantic-pile-of-350000-flickr-photos-is-now-art/

We like to think the photos we upload to Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr are special, and to us they are, but this mass of pictures serves as a reminder they're really just drops in the endless, fast-flowing river of online images. Sorry, but your favorite shots of Fido and little Bobby are ephemeral.

Approach the mountain of images, culled from a single day of Flickr uploads and now on display at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and you'll spot countless moments frozen in time -- a dad with a toddler on his lap, a happy couple at their wedding, a hockey game. But step back a foot, and one personal snapshot becomes indistinguishable from the next.