I say this in light of a recent trip to MoMA’s...

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I say this in light of a recent trip to MoMA’s Abstract Expressionist New York show, during which huge throngs of people were photographing the work, often while barely looking at it. Presumably those pictures would all soon be shared on Flickr and Facebook. There are a lot of warm, fuzzy reasons for sharing, but the most powerful may well be as a means of impressing upon others the value of our own experience. As my MoMA visit and countless other experiences demonstrate though, it’s a shame that we now often sacrifice the value of the experience itself in exchange for its transmission.

You’re Over-Sharing | Art Fag City | The L Magazine - New York City’s Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide (via photographsonthebrain)

i just recently had this kind of feeling overtake me while I was attending a show here in fresno. i want to experience what i’m doing. the problem is i have gotten so used to having something to do with my hands and for not really looking around at all the other spectators. now i don’t know what to do with my idol hands, nor how to stop having the desire to stare around at everyone else’s faces. i somehow feel like i don’t know how to be a proper audience member because I’ve had a camera glued to my face since I was 15. Anymore, I hardly even share the images and they just clog up my hard drive, but I can’t bear the thought of deleting them.

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