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> [During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/during-photography-s-first-decades-exposure-times-were-quite-long-so/)

[Lev Manovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-manovich/)

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## More by Lev Manovich

> [... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/the-reason-we-think-that-computer-graphics-technology-has-succeeded/)

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> [ ... what is faked \[by the computerization of image-making\], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/what-is-faked-by-the-computerization-of-image-making-of-course-is-not/)

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> [Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database... the problem today is no longer how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/any-unique-image-that-you-desire-probably-already-exists-on-the/)

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> [The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/the-digital-image-annihilates-photography-while-solidifying/)

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> [... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/while-in-theory-digital-technology-entails-the-flawless-replication/)

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> [Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/once-we-came-to-accept-the-photographic-image-as-reality-the-way-to/)

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> [We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/we-turn-our-own-lives-into-an-information-archive-by-storing-all-our/)

[Lev Manovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-manovich/)

> [As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/as-a-cultural-form-database-represents-the-world-as-a-list-of-items/)

[Lev Manovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-manovich/)

> [During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/during-photography-s-first-decades-exposure-times-were-quite-long-so/)

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> [It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-manovich/it-has-become-a-clich-to-announce-that-we-live-in-a-remix-culture/)

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