“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
“[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 printed and made physical.” MeanMadeCommunicationSpeechDigitalPrintedEphemeralSnapshotsMeans Of Communication Author:Geoffrey Batchen