Week 9- Geoffrey Batchen-
Phantasm- Digital Imaging and The Death of Photography [1994]
This article discusses photographs and how their creditability is changing over time due to the increasing development of digital imaging. Viewers will question the medium of photography as a conveyor of information. This results in photography having to deal with the crisis of technology and changes in ethics, knowledge and culture.
The article talks about manipulation, how photographers intervene in every photo taken, just by their decisions of what they decide to photograph and what is cropped. Digital imaging allows for humans to be creative which can be seen as a problem, putting a marking on a photo to allow individuals to know that the photo has been manipulated will result in people casting doubts on its creditability. The change in technology will cause the disappearance of the photograph and the culture it sustains.
No comments:
Post a Comment