Creating Cellular Vision: Cell Phone Photography and the (Shifting) Photographic Eye"

Abstract

This paper addresses the relatively new phenomenon of camera phone technology, focusing on the (re)construction of the shifting photographic vision, practice and gaze that this technology has created. I will examine the rearticulation of photography in terms of its temporality as the primary (photographic) concern by placing camera phones in parallel to their analog counterpoints. Finally, the paper considers how camera phone practices involve fervent social sharing and contemplates whether these images create a new form of memory.