Accepting Quote by Lev Manovich

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

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

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

— Ai Weiwei

“But the real attraction of such technology has never been about capturing reality. Photography, videography, holography... the progression of such “reality-capturing” technology has been…

— Ken Liu

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

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality…

— Susan Sontag

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look…

— Ernst Haas

... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at…

— Barbara Kruger

I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment…

— Russell James

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the…

— Edmundo Desnoes

Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

— Lev Manovich