All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptua…

- Geoffrey Batchen

[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they …

- Geoffrey Batchen

Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences …

- Geoffrey Batchen

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent …

- Geoffrey Batchen

Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to…

- Geoffrey Batchen

Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. …

- Geoffrey Batchen

The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As …

- Geoffrey Batchen