Screen Memories — Real Life
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Screenshots as much as snapshots are the vernacular photography of our lives
Screen Memories Screenshots as much as snapshots are the vernacular photography of our lives Kelly Pendergrast January 14, 2021 share Image: From the series Temporarily Censored Home by Xu Guanyu . Courtesy the artist. http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Memories.mp3 Full-text audio version of this essay. Every few months I accidentally catch a glimpse of my computer desktop (which I usually keep obscured with eight overlapping windows) and realize it’s time to deal with the damn screenshots. This time there are 168 of them, captured at a rate of about five per day, the un
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