Mobilography

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Mobilography (from “mobilis” (lat.) - movable and “grapho” (gr.) – to write) is a branch of photography that creates pictures using such devices with built-in cameras, as cellular phones, palm pilots, compasses, binoculars, lighters, etc, not originally intended to be used for professional photography. Mobilography first came on stage at the start of the 21st century when home appliances with built-in cameras became widely available to the general public. The term “mobilography” implies that a change in the primary function of the device has taken place, whereby the built-in camera, originally intended simply as an add-on feature, has taken on the primary function. As a rule this type of a camera is equipped with just a bare minimum of technological elements, frequently causing the resulting pictures to be of a fairly poor quality. Nevertheless mobilography has proved that poor quality of an image does not have to become an obstacle for the creation of full-blown high-quality pieces of art, a.k.a., mobilographs.

The unique communication potential of mobilographs opens up new possibilities for the non-verbal communication and goes away with such communication anachronisms as a language barrier. Mobilographs allow people to convey their thoughts and feelings through images, that are better equipped than words to communicate all of the emotional nuances of a message.