<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In this article I will elucidate the concept of photo messaging, and examine camera phones in the context of communication and photography. Camera functions are nowadays a popular add-on to the mobile (cellular) phone. Users can send photographs directly from the phone as photo messages. Findings suggest that the ubiquitous camera phone, and photo messaging, may substantially change the ways in which people use personal photography. The imaging capacity of mobile phones is becoming a potential part of perpetual visual contact. Thus taking and sending photographs on a camera phone represents a new resource for visual communication.</p></abstract>

In this article I will elucidate the concept of photo messaging, and examine camera phones in the context of communication and photography. Camera functions are nowadays a popular add-on to the mobile (cellular) phone. Users can send photographs directly from the phone as photo messages. Findings suggest that the ubiquitous camera phone, and photo messaging, may substantially change the ways in which people use personal photography. The imaging capacity of mobile phones is becoming a potential part of perpetual visual contact. Thus taking and sending photographs on a camera phone represents a new resource for visual communication.

Mobile Visual Communication

M.Soc.Sc. Researcher/doctoral student, School of Visual Culture/ Photography, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Hämeentie 135 C, FIN-00560 Helsinki,

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Photo Messages and Camera Phone Photography

In this article I will elucidate the concept of photo messaging, and examine camera phones in the context of communication and photography. Camera functions...

Mobile Visual Communication

Published Online: Feb 14, 2017

Page range: 49 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0200

Keywords
photo message, MMS, photography, mobile communication, camera phone

© by Mikko Villi

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Mobile Visual Communication

Published Online: Feb 14, 2017

Page range: 49 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0200

Keywordsphoto message, MMS, photography, mobile communication, camera phone

© by Mikko Villi

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
photo message, MMS, photography, mobile communication, camera phone