The Social Photo : On Photography and Social Media

Author: Nathan Jurgenson

Photography & photographs

Published on 6 January 2026 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 144 pages
197 x 129 x 11 | 120g

The selfie, the faux-vintage photo, the self-destructing image, the food photo-these new visual forms and the devices and platforms that facilitate them have fomented a cultural revolution. Not only has the art of photography and the industry around it been transformed, but the way we under-stand ourselves has changed. The Social Photo provides a language and conceptual framework to comprehend photography in the age of social media. This updated edition includes a new preface contemplating the fate of the social photo in the era of AI-generated images.