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The image without a camera
How the image separated from optical witness and became a designed scene.
About this collection
This route follows how a frame stopped corresponding to one moment and one viewpoint. First the laboratory disappeared, then the negative, then the very need for an event in front of a lens.
Still with a camera
- Digital Photography — Sensor, RAW and a New Production Chain — sensor, RAW, and the production chain.
- Contact Sheet — Photography as a Process of Selection — selection as the principal authorial work.
- Polaroid: image as a physical event — an image that is immediately an object.
Assembly instead of exposure
- Photoshop: the history of an image no longer trusted — reversibility, the layer, and a lost presumption.
- Compositing — An Image from Multiple Realities — an image from several realities.
- Color Grading — Color as an Authorial Decision — colour as an authorial decision.
- Visual Effects — The Believability of the Impossible — the believability of the impossible.
The scene without a shoot
- CGI — Anatomy of the Digital Scene — the anatomy of the digital scene.
- CGI: Why Images Are No Longer Just Shot — They’re Assembled — the image is built, not shot.
- Diffusion Models — A New Mechanism of Image Synthesis — a new mechanism of image synthesis.
- Who authors the image in the age of generative AI — who answers when there is no original.