Digital BW, The Print

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

>If I beat my head on a photo of a wall (suspended by a string), I will
>not hurt my head much.  If I beat my head on the real wall, I will.  I
>claim that the photo of the wall *is* in fact an abstraction of
>reality.  It's certainly not the real thing.
>  
>

Precisely...

And, as the photo is axiomatically an abstraction, there is no LOGICAL 
reason why a PhotoShopped image is a more or less accurate mediated 
representation of reality than is one that was not altered via digital 
methods..

By Austin's own arguments, the final output from PhotoShop and digital 
printing could well be more accurate representations of reality than 
could a traditional silver print..



Keith
 
 



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