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Annotated Bibliography

How is Instagram changing photography?

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Kavner, Lucas. "Instagram: Photography's Antichrist, Savior, Or Something In Between?" The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 18 Sept. 2012. Web. 24 Feb. 2013. This article takes the point of views of people from the technology industry, professional photographers and popular Instagram users about how they think Instagram, and more importantly its filters, are changing photography. Some think that the filters damage reality and ruin photos. Others just see Instagram as another medium to get photos to the community, while others see it as a community where creativity flourishes. This source is credible because it is from a respected news organization, The Huffington Post. Although some of the people interviewed just have the credentials of hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers, the points and opinions they point out are very much valid. I will definitely use this in my final piece because it is filled with where Instagram has been, where it is going and most importantly, where its taking photography as a whole. The Verge. "The Verge." The Verge. The Verge, 9 Apr. 2012. Web. 12 Mar. 2013. This article is from a very popular technology news site, The Verge. The article is an argument between two of the sites editors. One arguing that the filters are changing how we see the world and we are ruining photographs by adding the cheap Instagram filter on top of a mediocre picture taken with a cell phone camera, while the other argues that his partner is taking cell phone photography too seriously. He states that these millions of users on Instagram are not or are not trying to be photojournalists and professional photographers, and the filters they are adding to each picture is just for fun and its ok that they are altering what the real world looks like and goes on to say the Instagram is not a historical archive. There are very solid

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arguments for both sides, and because they are very well respected in the technology news industry, this article is valid because hundreds of thousands of internet users turn to The Verge every day to get their news, videos and articles. Because of the respect The Verge has in the technology news and information realm I will reference this article throughout my final paper. Mantey, Jackie. "How Instagram Is Changing Photography." Columbus Alive. The Dispatch Printing Company, 29 Nov. 2012. Web. 12 Mar. 2013. This article discusses what colleges and even museums are doing to incorporate Instagram into their activities. For example, Mantey, the author, mentions how The Columbus Museum of Art had a small show featuring Instagram photographs. The museum asked Instagramers to send in pictures that they felt represented words like joy and curiosity. The museum reported they received 900 submissions. Mantey interviews the Columbus College of Art and Designs photography chair who says that Instagram has made him more flexible and open with his photography and goes on to mention that he has to Flex my photographic muscles knowing that my mom can do the same thing I can do, it forces him to be more creative with his shots. Mantey also interviews a professional photographer who is Cautiously optimistic about Instagram. He is using the app to get inspiration and gets photo shoot ideas from the people he follows. He says he only has a problem when people ask him to mimic Instagram-like filters for them. This article is loaded with interviews and is from a creditable journalist who graduated from Kent State and is an Assistant editor at the Columbus Monthly magazine and is an Intern at US News & World Report. That being said, I will absolutely refer to this article in my final paper.

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Strickland, Ashley. "Art Photography: When 'reality Isn't Good Enough'" CNN. Cable News Network, 18 Aug. 2012. Web. 12 Mar. 2013. The author of this article, Strickland, talks to award-winning photographers about Instagram, its users and its filters. Famous commercial photographer David Allan Brandt mentions that the problem is the image before the filters are applied, and goes on to say that if you start with a bad image and apply a filter to it, it is still a bad picture. The photographer, David Brandt, also says "I always believed that you have to start with the image, make that image as strong as possible, and then use the style to enhance the vision you're trying to say, which he believes is the goal of the Instagram filters. The article then mentions how photographers have been straddling the thin line of when Photoshop becomes a plastic toy, verses a real honest-togoodness vehicle that allows you to become creative mentions Bryan Peterson, a commercial photographer. Peterson says that he gets angry when he leads a work shop and students dont realize that they have to work to create photographs in the first place, he calls th em Visually lazy photographers. Strickland doesnt stop there, she then talks about how editing has changed through the years, from Ansel Adams editing in the dark room to modern day photographers editing in front of a brightly lit computer monitor. This article is from the largest news website worldwide, CNN, so it is very credible; I think I will use this in my paper because the photographers Strickland talks to, especially Brandt, offer very interesting points as I have mentioned above.