May 14, 2009
79 Moons From Flickr - 51 Visible A new 20x200 edition by Penelope Umbrico to benefit the Aperture Foundation. Suns [and Moons, shown above] From Flickr is a project I started in 2006 when, looking for “the most photographed” subject, I found 541,795 photographs of sunsets searching “sunset” on the photo-sharing web site Flickr. At the time that seemed like a lot; today there are more than 4,786,139 hits for “sunset” on Flickr. I think it’s peculiar that the sun — the quintessential life-giver, constant in our lives, symbol of enlightenment, spirituality, eternity, all things unreachable and ephemeral, omnipotent provider of optimism and vitamin D… and so ubiquitously photographed — is now subsumed to the internet — the most virtual of spaces equally infinite but within a closed digital circuit. If this wasn’t so very-well-done, it would be like a lot of very crappy novice photoshop art. Maybe that’s what I like so much about it? (via jenbee)

79 Moons From Flickr - 51 Visible

A new 20x200 edition by Penelope Umbrico to benefit the Aperture Foundation.

Suns [and Moons, shown above] From Flickr is a project I started in 2006 when, looking for “the most photographed” subject, I found 541,795 photographs of sunsets searching “sunset” on the photo-sharing web site Flickr. At the time that seemed like a lot; today there are more than 4,786,139 hits for “sunset” on Flickr. I think it’s peculiar that the sun — the quintessential life-giver, constant in our lives, symbol of enlightenment, spirituality, eternity, all things unreachable and ephemeral, omnipotent provider of optimism and vitamin D… and so ubiquitously photographed — is now subsumed to the internet — the most virtual of spaces equally infinite but within a closed digital circuit.

If this wasn’t so very-well-done, it would be like a lot of very crappy novice photoshop art. Maybe that’s what I like so much about it?

(via jenbee)

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