In its exclusion of links, minimization of text, and encouragement of gauzy filters, Instagram turns every smartphone into its own little Silver Pavilion, through which the user can both cultivate a world and blot out what they don’t wish to see.
~ Jacob Mikanowski

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Art changes all the time, and when it changes, so does its history.
~ Jacob Mikanowski

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Instagram creates a disarming sense of intimacy with people you’ve never met.
~ Jacob Mikanowski

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In its exclusion of links, minimization of text, and encouragement of gauzy filters, Instagram turns every smartphone into its own little Silver Pavilion, through which the user can both cultivate a world and blot out what they don’t wish to see.
~ Jacob Mikanowski

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Part of the pleasure of Instagram is the way it edits out the ugly emotions that make up so much of the rest of social media.
~ Jacob Mikanowski

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The longer one lives in this world, the more tempting it becomes to escape, and to disappear.
~ Jacob Mikanowski

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