As the late Svetlana Boym said in her book The Future of Nostalgia--way back in 2001 when the advent of the Internet began disrupting culture in a big way:
"With the waning of the role of the art and humanities, there are fewer and fewer venues for exploring nostalgia, which is compensated for with an overabundance of nostalgic readymades. The problem with prefabricated nostalgia is that it does not help us to deal with the future. Creative nostalgia reveals the fantasies of the age, and it is in those fantasies and potentialities that the future is born. One is nostalgic not for the past the way it was, but for the past the way it could have been. It is this past perfect that one strives to realize in the future." [More]
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Artists are 'packagers' of ideas. Once a piece of art is finished and framed, it is resolved and packaged for use (viewing). Raw data, including billions of images with no organization, are unpackaged. Packaged photography is typically a singular element on a wall with some other elements, not a digital gallery or slideshow. (~6/2017)
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