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.


Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (ed. MIT Press, 2002) - ISBN: 9780262523240

Geoffrey Batchen Quotes

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

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

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

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