Accepting Quote 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…

— Lev Manovich

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to…

— Justine Kurland

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated…

— Andy Grundberg

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

— Fred Ritchin

Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses…

— Taryn Simon

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is…

— Jean Baudrillard

Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Things just enter reality through photographs.

— Thomas Demand

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images…

— Thomas Ruff

A picture is a model of reality.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

.if you project the image you wish the world to see, eventually it will become reality.

— Tera Lynn Childs