The Console Camera As Cultural Lens
Why are PSPs, DS' and GB Colour cameras everywhere?
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The camera roll has become playable.
From Dior shows to Nike cages to football stands, PSPs, Nintendo DSs and Game Boy Cameras are being used less as consoles, more as cultural lenses. Not because they are technically better. Because they are technically worse. The blur, the grain, the pixels, the clunky little flash. It all gives the image a point of view.
In an age where every device is designed to make things look perfect, old gaming cameras make the moment feel stranger, softer and harder to fake.