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Photography After Photography.Exhibition catalog.
Germany, 1995.
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Lev Manovich
THE PARADOXES OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
1. Digital Revolution?
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images before they were blended with film images. But just as
Socialist Realist paintings blended the perfect future with
the imperfect reality of the 1930s and never depicted this
future directly (there is not a single Socialist Realist work
of art set in the future), "Jurassic Park" blends the future
super-vision of computer graphics with the familiar vision of
film image. In "Jurassic Park," the computer image bends down
before the film image, its perfection is undermined by every
possible means and is also masked by the film's content.
This is then, the final paradox of digital photography.
Its images are not inferior to the visual realism of
traditional photography. They are perfectly real -- all too
real.
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4. Ibid., 4.
5. Ibid., 6.
6. Ibid., 49.
10. Ibid., 7.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
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