The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.
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
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
[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 …
Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to… - Geoffrey Batchen
Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to…
Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. … - Geoffrey Batchen
Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. …
Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences … - Geoffrey Batchen
Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences …
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
The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As …
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
Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent …
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