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1-2: Expanded Visualities: Photography and Emerging Technologies
  • ISSN: 2040-3682
  • E-ISSN: 2040-3690

Abstract

With the advent of AI-generated photorealistic images in easily accessible online resources, synthetic imaging suddenly is widely discussed, obscuring the quiet revolution that has transformed image-making in the digital realm over the last decades. ‘The decisive moment’ has been taken out of the photographer’s hands a long time ago and the numerous automatic mechanisms integrated into the apparatus and the editing pipeline question the idea of sole authorship. This reassessment and re-evaluation of photographic images demands for a precise, differentiated description for images that are not produced by optical means. Therefore, the term determines the essence and origin of the photorealistic, artificially created image.

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