2010–2020s: Smartphones

2010–2020s was shaped by Smartphones, Social Media, and the Age of AI Images, a context in which photographic institutions and expression changed significantly. This era page organizes photographers, movements, and historical background so readers can trace how Conceptual, and Japanese Photography emerged within a wider history of photography. Use it as a chronological entry point from individual photographers to related countries, visual languages, and source-backed historical context.

Basic facts
Era2010–2020s
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Context

During the Arab Spring of 2010–11, photographs and videos shot on smartphones circulated through social media, making popular uprisings visible while bypassing conventional media gatekeepers.
Instagram launched in 2010 and, together with smartphone cameras, transformed the meaning of the snapshot.

Photographers

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Amalia Ulman
Conceptual
Conceptual

Amalia Ulman (born 1989 in Argentina) is an Argentine-Spanish artist who staged Excellences & Perfections on Instagram and Facebook in 2014.

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Daisuke Yokota
Japanese Photography
Japanese Photography

Daisuke Yokota (born 1983 in Saitama) is a Japanese photographer who repeatedly develops, scans, rephotographs, burns, folds, and damages film and prints, making the materiality of photography itself the subject.

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