Instafame : Graffiti and Street Art in the Instagram Era - Lachlan MacDowall

Instafame

Graffiti and Street Art in the Instagram Era

By: Lachlan MacDowall

Paperback | 15 October 2019 | Edition Number 1

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Instafame charts the impact of Instagram&;one of the world&;s most popular social media platforms&;on visual culture in the mere eight years since its launch. MacDowell traces the intuitive connections between graffiti, street art, and Instagram, arguing that social media&;s unending battle for a viewer&;s attention is closely aligned with eye-catching ethos of unsanctioned public art. Beginning with the observation that the scroll of images on a sideways phone screen resembles nothing so much as graffiti seen through the windows of a moving train, Macdowell moves outward to give us a wide-ranging look at how Instagram has already effected a dramatic shift in the making and viewing of street art.
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'By characterizing graffiti and street art as 'flexible aesthetic features', MacDowall binds the latter to media forms, thus creating a feedback loop between digitally influenced practices of graffiti and street art and Instagram's digital platform, supporting his claim that ours is an Instagram era. [...] The book offers a well-synthesized review of the various scholarly theses on graffiti and street art as well as an insightful history of its photography.'

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