Top of Instagram. The Best of 2014
Once upon a time, although no one remembers exactly when, you had to take pictures with a camera, and you had to wait days or weeks for the results – until the film roll was finished, anyway. When you picked up your pictures, whatever happened some time ago, you had it on paper. Back home, you’d show the pictures to family and friends, go back to the lab to have more prints made. Meticulously, the pictures were stored in drawers or boxes. The special ones would be put in an album, with the date and a couple of words. Inscribed into the photograph was a mnemonic function, and the photos ensure: “It has been like this.” (Roland Barthes) Just before the end of the year, the photo-sharing service Instagram was reported to have more than 300 Million users. Immediately followed by the headline that Instagram is bigger than the messaging-service Twitter. A picture says more than a thousand words, so you’d rather communicate via images in the first place. People want to see images, anywhere and …