“Publicity is always about the future buyer, it offers him an image of himself made glamorous by the product or the opportunity it is trying to sell.”
“Publicity images often use sculptures or paintings to lend allure or authority to their own message”
“The happiness of being envied is glamoured. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance.”
"Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it."
The reason why I chose these quotes is because of how it connects to the picture above and what I feel is wrong with social media, more specifically Instagram, and how it affects users with consumerism. Nowadays, many Instagram users who have a large following like celebrities, musicians/rappers, or even athletes always show pictures about some exclusive shoes they have or expensive clothes they purchased from high fashion houses to their followers. Those same pictures are then shared with the public by their followers by posting it on their stories. This in turn influences the public with the mindset of consumerism, that whatever famous person they see on social media wearing some sort of clothing or shoes that the normal person usually cannot afford, they too want that same piece of clothing to feel validated or to prove to other people that they have that same piece of clothing/shoe on their own accounts. It's not to say that it is a bad thing, but I myself have seen it so many times and I myself have been influenced like this the same way.
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