A Visual Remix

Some artists have become digital collectors, turning other people’s pictures into new images with new meanings.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/a-visual-remix.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

In the seven years between the invention of the daguerreotype and Whitman’s visit to Plumbe’s, the medium had become popular enough to generate an impressive, and even hectic, stream of images. Now, toward the end of photography’s second century, that stream has become torrential.