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Stephen Downes

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This article isn't recommending that you leave your phone behind, but it does say you should leave it in your pocket and look at the art for a while before pulling it out to take a photo. Maybe for all of 17 seconds? That's how long we spent in 2001, before we all had smartphones. As someone who spent a lot of time in galleries both before and after digital photography, I prefer 'after' much more. I get to have a memory of the visit, and not merely the fuzzy one in my brain that erodes away over time.

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