Instagram Didn’t Kill Party Photography. It Just Made It Evolve.

In the early 2000s, Mark Hunter — aka The Cobrasnake — documented Los Angeles’ burgeoning hipster scene, taking high-flash photos of current and future It Girls partying in all their flip phone-wielding, Juicy Couture-clad glory. But for a while there, as the decade turned, he thought the golden age of party photography might have been behind him. “There was a shift where I’d been doing this for so long, and then I kind of felt phased out by social media,” Hunter says. Despite helping cement the aesthetics of the American Apparel generation, as captured in this year’s The Cobrasnake: Y2Ks… Read Full Article