Even Before Digital Cameras People Took A Crap Ton Of Photos

From New Year ’s Eve 2012 to New Year ’s daylight 2013 , Facebook usersuploaded1.1 billion photos . Which is something absurd like two exposure per active exploiter . But do n’t think that people haven’talwaysbeen people . Even before smartphones and digital television camera , consumers were out there taking a deal of stupid photos just for playfulness . And given how relatively resource intensive it was for people to own camera , buy celluloid , and develop photo it ’s pretty amazing to see how many prints total out of “ the old twenty-four hour period . ” EnterThe Photo Man .

Mark Kologi has process over three million photos as part of a business where he buys and sells abandon personal prints . Family vacation , novel elevator car , dilapidated buildings , anything masses inject on picture show he ’ll collect and distribute . He says that people react to the photo differently . Some buy them because they ’re looking for artistic or aesthetic breathing in . Others just think they ’re cool . And Kologi says that about one person a class add up up to his stand and startle crying because they ’re so struck with the history of it all . Or something . Ben Kitnick’sshort documentary is a great way of realizing that digital picture taking did n’t make a new whim in us , it only expatiate on one that was already there . [ PetaPixel ]