Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Instagram exhibition

  • Instagram exhibitions have taken place in London and Hong Kong, but today marks the first for New York. HuffPost Arts recently spoke to Brian DiFeo, the founder of Instagram NYC and the curator, about the exhibition.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • When Facebook bought Instagram, the photo app that makes images look vintage yet picture perfect, for $1 billion, the tech world was stunned.
  • (Village Voice (blog))
  • While, for many users, Instagram is about sharing their experiences through their photos, for others, its about making art through iPhone (and now of course, Android) photography.
  • (in.com)
  • In February, Jason Mraz held an Instagram contest around his song "I Won't Give Up." The winning entries were printed on canvas and showcased at a private exhibit in New York City.
  • (Mashable.com)
  • The pinwheels, by Ara Peterson and Jim Drain, dangle in the exhibit space, letting guests stand and and LAist is now hereby dubbing Peterson Drains swirling fun work the Most Instagram-ed Piece of Transmission LA.
  • (Laist.com)
  • Instagrams chief executive Kevin Systrom Hochmuth grew up in Berlin in Germany and is making a name for himself as a photographer with an exhibition currently on show in Toronto.
  • (including the freelance designer who joined less than three weeks ago - Daily Mail)
  • W Hotels, for example, will introduce its first Instagram photo exhibition on May 1 at the Living Room in its Times Square property.
  • (New York Times (blog))
  • Eugene Smith and even had an exhibit on a city bus. But despite these excitements I was reminded of this when I heard the news about Facebook buying Instagram for a billion bucks yesterday.
  • (SYS-CON Media (press release))

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