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They appear in beautiful places, dressed in elegant clothes and enjoying a good life, presenting wonderful images of themselves, their homes, their spouses or their partners. They master the "art of small details" and plunge social networking sites with those "beautiful" images as an equivalent of art and beauty. Is this really art and beauty?
Today, we see a large segment of young men and women who are obsessed with photography, which has surpassed the idea of photography, such as a gift or photography as a work of art, and reached the point of obsession with the portrayal of the self and all the details of daily life and review.
What is artistic and beautiful?
Speaking of the aesthetic theory, the German philosopher Theodore Adorno (1903-1969) had a succinct phrase in which he said, "capitalism has removed art from itself."
This phrase on her palace is reduced to an enormous amount of very precise meanings. Although Adorno himself died in August 1969, his phrase had a curious predictive power of the decline of art and even of what was called "beauty."
The means of communication contributed to the export of a bourgeois lifestyle entirely as a depth or art. The art of small details is usually blended with an ideological or religious orientation so that this pattern appears more burdensome than mere blank reviews.
Although many psychological studies have dealt with the devastating effects of this type of review, both on the person who is actually doing it and those who follow it, the phenomenon is on the rise and has become an easy and guaranteed way to gain a large number of followers.
The Independent newspaper - in an article about the obsession of photography by Michael Piotr - the most miserable face of the photographic obsession. That "the image has become a commodity" and everyone wants to acquire it. According to the article, the world has become flat and tied to the camera screen, and this is a danger.
For example, the Internet site is packed with millions of pictures of girls and young people in beautiful places in expensive clothes, whether decent or liberal. With each picture is a very nice story of profound artistic or literary meaning. This is precisely the danger and poison in honey.
This is a very beautiful photograph: there is a girl, for example, in a short dress between flowers, her hair caressing the air. The means of communication will be exported as expressing freedom. Then, tragically, freedom is limited to that type of life.
If we analyze the picture with reason and logic, we find that any other girl needs a fair amount of money to buy a dress like the one in the picture, and an attractive place full of landscapes, cosmetics and accessories. If any follower / follower of this type of photo wants to have / have some pictures like them, he will find that he needs a fair amount of money for a single photo.
More seriously, this bourgeois style has become a safe and convenient way for a large number of young people to become public figures, but it does not stop at this person who markets for himself or reviews his life. This pattern creates a state of deep indignation within the underprivileged and poorer social classes and even the materially middle classes who can not follow this unfinished bourgeois review.
While a middle-class girl can not publish daily or weekly photos of her intimate relationships, clothes, boyfriends and personal effects with a professional camera, she will over time realize that this very bourgeois style is happiness, freedom, art and beauty.
False memories
As well, the effects of mania spanning personal life span on communication means extend beyond distorting the concepts of art and beauty. Reviewing the details of his life through photographs distorts the brain's way of remembering the past, says Juliana Mazoni, a professor of psychology at the University of Hull.
Engaging in photo shoots and storing all images on websites or smart phones automatically makes people weak on memory. Because his mind does not work in memorizing the memories that are guaranteed to be saved on any intelligent device. The photographer is here outside the event and not part of it.
Returning to Adorno's phrase that capitalism diverts art from itself, the artistic spirit or artistic character can be found in a painting or a written poem, but certainly not in the form of a person who displays his wonderful bourgeois life to satisfy his sense of greatness. The process of documentation here is not for memories but to capture and celebrate the sense of grandeur.
According to the American Journal of Depression and Depression, the ideal obsession with networking may prompt some to think about suicide, because the observer may not have the sense of cash to understand that all these images are not really equivalent to happiness, art or beauty.
"Many people see that someone on Facebook has a wonderful job, an excellent wife, an excellent husband and a nice home." People may feel happy about this lucky person, but others may feel jealousy, depression or a desire to commit suicide. They see it on Facebook. "
Our lack of aesthetic / artistic freedom and living in the illusion of image - says Adorno - will become an obstacle to our social freedom. The fluttering of the artistic taste of society, the flattening of key concepts and the importance of human survival (such as art and beauty) and its confinement in images that can only be obtained at a high price, will eventually harm our ability to distinguish the good from the malignant.