Shieferstein, Ava. Untitled in “Beach Photography”. 2020.

These poor-departed images define a specific gap in photographic and visual hierarchies.

Considering the proximity to the era when point-and-shoots were the popular consumerist

camera and the psychological attachment one has to the visual culture surrounding them during

their developmental stages, there is an aesthetic-cultural rise in this kind of image. It is a

different image than the images that were actually made in the early 2000’s because of the

influence of the internet in late-capitalism on our current-visuality. It is an attempt at working

retrospectively to understand and offer up the visuality of violence that we experienced, one that

we never understood as violence before; it is the violence in the subliminal. A digital photograph

has shapeshifting abilities. Unlike an analog photograph, one can zoom into a digital photograph

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