Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular. — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
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… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image