Photographer: Jon Cone
Title: IMG03580, 04/22/08, 10:10PM, Mexico City
Year: 2007
Part of his Blackberry Series, Cone has been shooting with a cell phone camera to make photographs that are part of what he calls “our present culture of image making.”
“The cell phone photograph has become part of our culture, much like the way Kodak brownie did in the 1950s. These cameras produce photos which our visual intelligence is rapidly beginning to recognize. They have a peculiar format and lens. What I have been trying to do is make photographs in a manner that I would call “serious photography”. I choose to shoot with a Blackberry phone. I have gone through more than one to find a CCD I like, and a lens that has the peculiar distortions I like. The jpeg artifacts of my particular camera look nearly like film grain so as to mask the original intention behind the camera choice.”
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