>Are you saying that the image files themselves are the reproductions, or
>the actual image when viewed on the screeen is a reproduction? I'd argue
>that the files may be reproductions of photographs, but that the >screen
>image is a photograph in its own right. [Chris Brogden]
The screen image is also a reproduction. Everything in the digital milieu
is a reproduction or simulation since there is no authoritative original,
nothing to adjudicate reality.
'Image' is a good word for everything of a digital nature - it is fleeting,
transitory, ephemeral, having no substance. That this is mis-applied
without discretion to negatives and prints is only evidence that people
don't understand authentic photography.
Rob
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