The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process.… — Geoffrey Batchen Abandon 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… — Geoffrey Batchen Cellphone 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.… — Geoffrey Batchen Consciousness 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,… — Geoffrey Batchen Communication 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… — Geoffrey Batchen Animated 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… — Geoffrey Batchen Consequence 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… — Geoffrey Batchen Boundaries Copy Share Image