“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.” Has BeensStillsImportantSeemsProcessDifferencesKnownPracticePhotographyCapableClaimsDigitalAbandonRhetoricObjectivityFabricationImaging Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History
“Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous National Geographic way of seeing.” WorldWayHumansDifferencesSeeingSweetPhotographyHuman ExperienceFluidAnimatedSuspendedHomogeneousNational Geographic Author:Geoffrey Batchen