Apple iPhone 3

United States, 2008

Object On display
Photograph by Egmont Contreras, ACMI

The power to record, document, and film footage is now in everyone’s pocket. Mobile camera phones like those found in the Apple iPhone allow users to capture the world around them and share videos instantly. Along with the advent of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the camera phone was an important development in digital connectivity and the spread of social movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. It has also become a modern tool for moviemaking, with filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh, Sean Baker, Jay Alvarez, Park Chan-wook and Michel Gondry shooting whole feature films with mobile cameras.

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Collection

In ACMI's collection

Previously on display

22 April 2019

ACMI Ground Floor

Credits

manufacturer

Apple

Production places
United States
Production dates
2008

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

GF000219

Curatorial section

The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Minds → MM-05. Camera Tech → MM-05-C01

Object Types

3D Object

Materials

Electronic mobile phone with stand

Collected

6084 times

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