Digital Photography

“It doesn’t really matter if this is photography or not. However, the new may turn out to bear more than a close relation to what has gone on before.”

It is not an uncommon fact that new developments in digital technologies have caused a stir throughout the photographic art world. However it is only in recent years with such technologies becoming more accessible, both financially and through a larger distribution, plus the ease at which unspecialised people could pick up and use these changes that the stir has shifted to a more negative note. Questions are now arising on whether such developments should be used and in doing so what differences this will make to the outcome of the contemporary world.

Digital photography was created in order to aid our development in science. The very first digital images were sent back to earth from satellites allowing scientist to see the happenings out in deeper space. Its function was to inform, and provide us with the means of understanding the truth about our world and the ways it worked both from the outside and from the inside too, therefore in its early years digital photography was taken has portraying the undoubted truth and nothing else

“the photographic procedure, like … scientific procedures, seems to provide a guaranteed way of overcoming subjectivity and getting at the real truth”

(Martin Lister 1995 P34)

Scientists are constantly updating their ways of inventing and photography was the latest stepping-stone in their path to understanding the truth, however it was soon clear that even digital photography had its limits causing a new solution to be found. They focused on the codes which light was transferred into in order for the digital image to be created and it wasn’t long before they were able to alter these codes and in doing so were able to alter the overall image, or even create an image from scratch. Such people as scientists Marxist Bertolt Brecht and Ian Hacking believed that this update could actually