Layers: looking at photography and photoshop. (Features).(Evaluation)

From: Afterimage | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Flagan, Are | Copyright information

BACKGROUND

Despite the conjunctive statement in the title of this essay, there is currently an ontological dividing line between photographs and images spawned by Photoshop. Apart from tracing the outlines of different technologies, this contested line circumscribes the divide between analog and digital manifestations of photographic representations. The crucial difference between the two has often, and quite dramatically, been construed as a matter of life and death--on...

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