Jo Spence - Beyond the family album (1979)

Beyond the Family Album by Jo Spence looks at the typical family album and in a sense flips it. She captures the Kodak Moments you don't normally see or include within a family album such as family in hospital, a photo of someone beaten up. Spence sees the family album and photographs the stuff that happens behind the scenes. This is the type of stuff that would probably be frowned upon, especially in a family album, she questions the family album and who decided what should be included.
I like this work a lot and it questions the Kodak moment and what should and shouldnt be considered one, it gives the whole thing a different outlook and I think even to an outsider on photography maybe just the famil album type would it would make them question and wonder and also probably agree.

Photo 1 - http://www.jospence.org/assets/beyond_family_album/9.jpg
Photo 2 - http://www.jospence.org/assets/beyond_family_album/2.jpg
Website - http://www.jospence.org/index.html

27 Million Followers.

A few days ago (26/02/15) Kim Kardashian West, on Instagram reached 27 million followers, since then (28/02/15) she now has 27.1 million followers. Now although some of them may not be fully open accounts (forgotten passwords, robot accounts, etc) there might be 2 million of them maximum, if you think about that, that is 25 million people she reaches when she posts something on the application, every time! Now to my knowledge she isn't payed to post on the platform (I may be wrong) like she has been on the other social network Twitter but for her to reach at least 25million people worldwide at the snap of a picture, that could work out to be some good publicity a companies behalf as well as her own. Thats how powerful social media and more importantly photographs within social media can be these days.
Photographs are becoming a new and easier way of communication, as they say 'a picture is worth a thousand words' and it is becoming more apparant and time as social media is evolving.

Here is Kardashian West's Instagram profile - https://instagram.com/kimkardashian/

Using Kodak moments for work (Nikki S Lee - Projects)

Nikki S Lee, bornin South Korea, based in New York City at the time created a body of work over 4 years called Projects from 1997- 2001. In this body of work she would take on a persona, from multiple ethinicties, work her way into a certain group by dressing like them, acting the same, etc. Once she was comfortable with the group (this could take various amounts of time) she would get he film camera out, and take a few snapshots with her newly found 'friends' as you normally do. Once Lee had the work she needed she would cut ties with the group and stop talking to them, vanishing from their lives. She would even leave the timestamp ino the picture to get that sense of time and when she was in which group.
These are perfect example of Kodak Moments and using it to her advantage to create a body of work is ingenius in my opinion and I admire the work a lot.

 

Black group - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/93/f4/ce/93f4ce59e2e06fe74e89cc865af948ae.jpg

Work group - http://www.phillips.com/Xigen/lotimg/Nikki-S--Lee/NY040311/265

Tourist group - https://oscarenfotos.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/nikki_s_lee_23.jpg

Kodak Moments coming back around.

Old media formats are making their way back around into our culture today, VHS, tapes, vinyl and even film.
Last year vinyl reached an all time high for the first in 18 years. Along with vinyl, The Impossible Project the new producers of instant film taking over the former Polaroid Warehouse in Enschede, Netherlands, Achieved their first 1 million sales in a year last year. That news is great for both parties, for them because since 2008 when they started to 2010, they have had to start from scratch and re-engineer a new formula as Polaroid didnt leave it (Surprisingly). Always tweaking the ingredients, making the film better, re-introducing formats such as 8x10 and 1200/spectra so to make their first 1 million sales is a big milestone. It is also great for us because it means the more they produce, the better the products get and eventually the cheaper they will become. Film is on the rise with some shops developing more traditional formats than digital! Poundland, The cheap item chain store has probably had a hand in the re-rise of film selling a mixture of Kodak and Agfa 35mm film for £1 a roll! good quality or bad quality it will be getting people interested in film experimenting and later on moving on to better film and funding the market again.
Your beloved Kodak Moments could become common again sooner than you think.


https://blog.the-impossible-project.com/1000000-instant-films-an-historic-impossible-milestone
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/27/vinyl-sales-1m-2014-pink-floyd-artic-monkeys-jack-white
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8525839/Traditional-camera-film-makes-a-come-back.html

Nokia Moments (Lifeblog).

Lifeblog was made by Nokia the mobile phone industries giants at the time of 2004 as an application around phone application introduction. Nokia was aiming to be the digital version of the precious 'Kodak Moment' with their always upgrading phones and Lifeblog was there to help support that cause. The application that cost around $30 was a digital way of scrapbooking your daily photographs, videos and even text messages, this meant that you didn't have to spend time transferring them to a computer to then print them out and stick them in. You could digitally file them on your phone and it also meant you could show it to your friends without having to carry your scrapbook!

http://www.fastcompany.com/50517/mobile-nokia-moments Here is some more information.

Kodak Moment Adverts.

All of the Below are previous adverts for the 'Kodak Moment'. The Kodak Moment was an advert to encourage people to buy their product and take photography into their own hands and make their own memories rather than hiring out a camera or paying people to take photographs for you.

 

Kodak gone wrong - http://argonautnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14.jpg

Kodak app - http://wpuploads.appadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kodak.png?showGallerySet=false

Kodak square - https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/p160x160/1012394_10151843651796755_741704967_n.png?oh=761877a065c8a36ac856517acd84d1c6&oe=554D7C83&__gda__=1431670805_5edaa5d328c6fe360c61df5d06876f7b

A Kodak moment - http://images.rapgenius.com/05067f8e18925c2e59ec2c6b05f51d79.580x388x1.jpg

Instagram as a platform.

Instagram as a platform has paved the way for many peoples careers, such as bloggers, models, video artists and even photographers because it can work as a blog or a portfolio for someone that can also be seen by many people in the palm of their hand wherever they are (as long as they have signal or wifi).
I think one of the biggest examples of this happened in June last year when a liverpool based photographer Conor McDonnell got called in as a replacement for Annie Leibovitz for the heavily anticipated Kanye West and Kim Kardashian wedding. The reason he was chosen? Kim had somehow managed to spot him on Instagram and he was flown out 24 hours. The main photograph of the wedding went viral on the app and is now the most liked and probably viewed photo on the platform with 2.4million+ likes! (Along with 58,000+ comments). It just goes to show that social media in a sense can be just as powerful as reputation and or word of mouth. Some people say digital is the death of print which to some extent I agree with but in this day and age could print provide an opportunity like this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27996193 - Story on Conor McDonnell