"Ten Frames" is a series of one-minute video/slideshow shorts on individual themes. The theme for this one-minute video is “Smart Phones/Cell Phones.”
Because of the enormous variety within this particular theme, this one has “Twenty Frames “.
In my “Shoot From The Hip” newsletter, I wrote about…
The use of smart/cell phones in everyday life is a pain to many a street photographer. It was a new novelty around 2010. Capturing the new technology in action was a good recording of the times. After taking dozens of photographs where most people’s faces peering down at their smart phone screen, it becomes monotonous and visually repetitive.
When I think past my initial issues with the ubiquitous aspects of people and their smart phones/cell phones showing up in the photographs I take—I rationalized that there’s a certain human relationship involved that’s interesting. Not to mention, demonstrating the huge societal impact of the technology. It is the human condition in action.
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We carry around a mirror that’s a window. Do we think of it with the same wonder as someone elderly in the 1940s looked at those invariably black phones with a flexible covered wire attached to a clumsy hand set?
I can’t imagine no one taking a second look at the guy in the black hat with the inner tube. 😂
Everyone is so immersed that they don’t even notice you taking a picture. The expressions tell a story too.
Well done!