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How Party and Nightlife Photography Survived Social Media

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Photographers like Tyrell Hampton and Mark Hunter aka The Cobrasnake share the new rules of capturing nightlife In the early 2000s, Mark Hunter — aka The Cobrasnake — documented Los Angeles' burgeoning hipster scene, taking high-flash photos of current and future It Girls partying in all their flip phone-wielding, Juicy Couture-clad glory. But for a while there, as the decade turned, he thought the golden age of party photography might have been behind him. “There was a shift where I'd been doing this for so long, and then I kind of felt phased out by social media,” Hunter says. Despite helping cement the aesthetics of the American Apparel generation, as captured in this year’s The Cobrasnake: Y2Ks Archive, with iPhones flourishing and Instagram taking off, “there was an idea that the party photographer was a bit obsolete.” But all of that has changed over the past few years. Now, he says, “I've been re-embraced, and it's because of social media that I thrive.” Some of that is a post-p

Nylon; Lexie Moreland; Matt Weinberger The Art Issue 2022 Instagram Didn’t Kill Party Photography. It Just Made It Evolve. Photographers like Tyrell Hampton and Mark Hunter aka The Cobrasnake share the new rules of capturing nightlife by Emily Kirkpatrick Updated: Feb. 20, 2024 Originally Published: Dec. 2, 2022 The Art Issue 2022 In the early 2000s, Mark Hunter — aka The Cobrasnake — documented Los Angeles' burgeoning hipster scene, taking high-flash photos of current and future It Girls partying in all their flip phone-wielding, Juicy Couture-clad glory. But for a while there, as the decade

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