The article “Instant Gratification” by: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg seemed quite interesting at first glance. Its category “Readings on Image and Media” caught my eye, as well as the subject matter and title. Instant gratification as I’ve learned is not the best way to go about living life, at least for me. I must work hard for the privilege to sit back and relax hence the hypocrisy of the title drew me in.
The requirement of developing photos is now a way of the past. Once a religious method of capturing history, now a single click of a button that anyone can achieve. Trachtenberg talks about the transition from film photography to contemporary digital photography. The technological advancement of the Kodak portable point and shoot camera, the Polaroid instant pictures, to the instant digital picture, that appears on a screen and can be sent anywhere via the internet.
The idea of having everyone be able to take pictures is quite a feat in itself. But me as a media artist love the idea of a picture friendly world, some pictures are harmless, some pictures are incriminating, some pictures have sentimental meaning and I think everyone should have a chance to create a photograph of some kind because of how important they are to today’s society.
-Nick Edmonds
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