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How our attachment to past makes us overlook new trends and talent in photography

There’s a very succinct analogy by Marshall McLuhan, summing up our society’s focus on the past: “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” McLuhan was referring to technology, but his observation works just as well in the context of modern-day photography: Even as technology reshapes it, we […]

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