L'Amour Faux

Essay on the deterioration of photography's claim to provide
evidence and on the social implications of this. The work in the
exhibition ""Digital Photography: Captured Images/Volatile
Memory/New Montage'' is discussed. (artists include Alan Rath,
Esther Parada, George Legrady, Michael Brodsky, Christopher
Burnett, Carol Flax, Sheila Pinkels, Paul Berger, and Manual
(Suzanne Bloom, Ed Hill). This essay originally appeared in the
exhibition catalogue to ""Digital Photography'' (San Francisco
Camerawork, 1988).
International Center of Photography, New York University


Citaten:
Baudrillard, J.: The Evil Demon of Images (1987)
Brand, S.: Digital Retouching (Whole Earth Review, july 1985)
Ritchin, F.: Photography's New Bag of Tricks (NY Times Magazine nov. 4 1984)
Ripp, A.: Whose Imageis it Anyway? (American Photographer june 1987)
Said, E.: The Imperialism of Representation (Wedge n.7/8 winter/spring 1985)
Slater, D.: Image Worlds (Ten.8 n.22)
Armburst, R.: Computer Manipulations of the News (Computer Pictures jan/feb 1985)
Brand, S.: The Media Lab (1987)
Mattelart, A.: Infotech and the Third World (in: Making Waves, 1985)
Jameson, F.: Postmodernism: or the Cultural Logic of Capitalism (New Left Review 146)
Mattelart, A.: New Means of Communication (Media, Culture and Society n.2, 1980)
Rosler, M.: Image Simulations Computer Manipulations (in: Digital Photography: Captured Images, SF Camerawork)
Enzensberger, H.: The Industrialization of the Mind (in: Critical Essays, 1979)