The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media

"Mr. Jurgenson makes a first sortie toward a new understanding of the photograph, wherein artistry or documentary intent have given way to communication and circulation. Like Susan Sontag’s On Photography, to which it self-consciously responds, The Social Photo is slim, hard-bitten and picture-free." – New York Times

A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world.


With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrati...