Analog to Digital photography


  • Digital technology allows for greater ease in editing than analog photography, because it transforms photographs from objects into data.
  • Marshal McLuhan - "the medium is the message" --> "medium" is any extension of the human senses. McLuhan's "message" explains the way a new medium affects a culture, "for the 'message' of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs."
  • Digital technology allows for greater ease in editing than analog photography, because it transforms photographs from objects into data.
  • Digital photography challenges the historical belief that photography is representative of reality. Roland Barthes describes the relationship between object and image and time as "that-has-been"
  • Photographs are perceived to represent reality in their reference to a subject in time
  • Digital images are translated into code
  • The process of reading photographs is influenced by the context of the image
  • "Whenever one medium seems to have convinced viewers of its immediacy, other media try to appropriate that conviction." (Bolter and Grusin)
(source: Analog to Digital: The indexical function of photographic images, Corey Dzenko)


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