{"id":2173,"date":"2013-06-30T21:09:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T21:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2013-10-01T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:37:28","slug":"turning-photography-into-a-communication-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/30\/turning-photography-into-a-communication-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;turning photography into a communication medium&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Bilton&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/30\/disruptions-social-media-images-form-a-new-language-online\/\">Bits blog<\/a>\u00a0post is a provocative look at the increasing use of images as a substitute for words in everyday language and communication.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a watershed time where we are moving away from photography as a way of recording and storing a past moment,&#8221; said Robin Kelsey, a professor of photography at Harvard, and we are &#8220;turning photography into a communication medium.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like Mitchell Stephens&#8217; 1998\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/14HhAtf\">The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word<\/a>\u00a0is turning out to be very prescient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Bilton&#8217;s\u00a0Bits blog\u00a0post is a provocative look at the increasing use of images as a substitute for words in everyday language and communication. &#8220;This is a watershed time where we are moving away from photography as a way of recording and storing a past moment,&#8221; said Robin Kelsey, a professor of photography at Harvard, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[861,1445,1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-photography","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}