What are the most popular types of photography? Portrait photography is #1, of course! How many photographs do we take each day? Goggle tells us that a 2014 estimate was 1.8 billion images every single day. There are 14 trillion photos take annually, as of 2017.
Pictures flow on the internet highway. In one second 8,523 Tweets were sent, 920 Instagram photos were uploaded, 1,541 Tumblr posts are maden. There are 3,400,000 emails sent in a second, WhatsApp messages are 740,741, and Facebook posts are 54,977.
I went searching for the most popular photos in the world. I find the most influential photos - these are mostly photos of death and dying in action - starvation, falling, people being shot (remember Vietnam images) etc. There are 2 wonderful portrait- of Chez Guevera and Winston Churchill.
So I am not able to find the most popular picture in the world. What about the most viewed picture in the world? What is it?
It turns out to be the "Bliss' photograph on the wallpaper screen of the 1990s Microsoft computers. Photographer O’Rear said: “I am turning seventy-six and realise how much the Microsoft ‘Bliss’ photograph has meant to my life. “As the photographer of the most viewed photo in history, I have enjoyed every minute of the fame.” It is a picture he took out of the car window in Sonoma. I've always wondered about the strangely shadowed grass and how smooth and green the 'landscape' is.
