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03/30/2019 - 08/04/2019
SFMOMA
151 Third St
CA 94103 San Francisco
snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks explore the outward gesture of sharing pictures, instead of the more traditional, inward act of taking photographs, throughout the history of the medium. The show examine our current social media environment as the latest iteration in a long lineage of using networks—first with postal systems and now the Internet—as a vehicle for art making, as well as affirming one’s place in the world.
SFMOMA
151 Third St
CA 94103 San Francisco
snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks explore the outward gesture of sharing pictures, instead of the more traditional, inward act of taking photographs, throughout the history of the medium. The show examine our current social media environment as the latest iteration in a long lineage of using networks—first with postal systems and now the Internet—as a vehicle for art making, as well as affirming one’s place in the world.