It
is truly amazing the rate at which technology moves! Four years ago, the author
thought that film photography was here to stay for a long while because digital
cameras were expensive, not so good, and anyway, people would need fancy
computers and printers to make accessible photos. Now easy Internet business is
routinely conducted with digital images.
But, as Lipkin points out, in
PHOTOGRAPHY REBORN, it is not only that digital photography takes the place of
film. It does, but it also is a genuine new medium. This book tells how and why
digital images can out-manipulate experience and reality, be a new aesthetic
medium and be more subversive than film photographs in which Trotsky's image
was removed from Stalin's. In fact, the book tells not only how digital
photography works, but also is a great guide to what it promises to do in the
future.
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