GettyWe live in an image-drenched world in which the era of text is increasingly giving way to the era of the image. What if we turned that idea on its head and extracted all of the images from our digitized books, while discarding their text? Have we lost our ability to experience art in the digital era? Several Instagrammers noted that hashtags have become both about the discovery of art and a way of contextualizing them for viewers. In many ways, hashtags have become almost a modern incarnation of the “frame,” influencing how we experience an image.

Source: Forbes April 06, 2019 20:03 UTC