The findings reveal that landscape pictures on Instagram echo Romantic era paintings, using similar motifs and aesthetic strategies. Instagrammers, like 19th-century Romantic painters, emphasize themes of solitude, mystification, sublimity, and nostalgia, contrasting sharply with contemporary issues like ecological crises. By staging and aesthetically transforming nature, Instagrammers medially reverse the destruction of nature and create idealized landscapes that evoke a bygone, pre-industrial era and an intact human-nature relationship. Accordingly, landscape images on Instagram can be interpreted as a new idealized, romantic reality or as a postmodern reinvention of Romanticism. Instagrammers seek out photo locations based on their ability to synthesize as many physical elements as possible into an ‘instagrammable’ scenery, creating a stereotypical romantic landscape image.
>the virgin new topographics: stop refusing to look at factories and landfills! society is le bad! this is a washed up old trend! the personal is political you fascists! stop downplaying climate change! all of africa is going to starve! killer polar bears are getting smaller!!! TRAGEDY!>the chad landscape photography: I am thankful that my modern lifestyle affords me the free time and good health to go look at the pretty mountains that were under the glaciers. The yukon has never been more pleasant.
>>4477708What "findings"? And yeah, obviously any landscape photographer worth his salt has studied the great landscape artists of the bygone era
oh wait, i now realize that this is a ChatGPT post. Sage.
>>4477735https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666378325000224>>4477734Apparently no photographers since the 1970s
>>4477708>>4477751Very interesting approach. It definitly fits the narrative. Sell a lucky life, a happy carrier, an open minded attitute and good relationships and so on. That's what sells. People are miserable and want to be part of something that they don't have. The young ones, around 20, seem to be unhappier as my generation was, (I'm 42 years old). The constant feed of entertainment depresses way more than it can enlighten.Reality is just not as easy, after all. Whoever doesn't struggle: my congratulations.Everybody else - carry on, my friends.
>>4477708I was 4 years into a huge nationwide photo essay on immediate environmental issues that affect us all, until the US made it fucking crystal clear how much they don't give a fuck about anything other than money and power. These people are filthy fucking animals and you could show them the hole in the hull with water pouring in and they'll stab you for fucking pointing it out if they can think of a way to be the last one to drown. A whole culture full of idiots and assholes. All wildlife here is doomed, these orcs will go out of their way to make sure everything around them dies, with not a single fucking thought as to what they'll eat next. They've even created gods in their image to enforce and reward their suicidal cultural meme.No point in doing the work to fight the uphill battle trying to get through to them, just let them all pray at the clouds and kill themselves.
>>4477801Maybe they thought your essay insisted upon itself too much, ever think of that?
>>4477817>was 4 years into a huge nationwide photo essay on immediate environmental issues that affect us all, until >Maybe they thought how would they think that when they didnt see it, did they time travel?
>>4477801>They've even created gods in their image to enforce and reward their suicidal cultural meme.Such as?
>>4477960Gau Mata/the golden bull, god of the goyim
>>4477971Isn't that a Hindu god?
