I was looking briefly at some images in a sunday newspaper magazine today. They were advertisements I think, probably for a company that makes furniture or something. They were very stylised interiors and made colourful, well composed images. (Of course they were completely unlivable, but that wasn't the point, it was advertising). It reminded me of the 'it photgraphs well' line about buildings and the longstanding importance of how well a building can be portrayed in an image at, maybe, the expense of how good it actually is.
The other day I was in a restaurant in a big group and at one point almost everyone was photographing each other. I wonder if the recent tendency to photograph every moment makes it more relevant and important that buildings look good in photographs as this is now part of how they are actually used rather than just how they are publicised.