![]() The scale of digital photographs is enormous in 2015 it was estimated that every two minutes people take more photographs than existed 150 years ago, and about 1.8 billion images are uploaded every day (Eveleth 2015). Sometimes we hold this flow in our hands when we touch our fingers to a screen and pause the digital stream to have a closer look at the face, to gaze directly into the eyes, of another. A digital amalgam of the notable and the nameless, the sensational and shameful-that flashes by at the speed of light and slows down only momentarily when snapped into a hierarchical grid of importance, determined by Google’s search result algorithms. It hardly needs mentioning that there exists an ever-present flow of photographs humming in the background of everyday life. ![]() Representation and Slowing the Infinite Scroll
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