The Night Albums: Visibility And The Ephemeral ... Site

: His Vanishing Photographs series was designed to darken and become illegible over the course of an exhibition, making their change part of the art.

Albers uses several artistic examples to highlight how visibility is often conditional:

: Today’s digital landscape mirrors this early instability through self-erasing apps like Snapchat and algorithmic feeds like Astronaut.io , where images appear momentarily and then vanish back into code. Case Studies in Vanishing Visibility