TRUTH, THE FIRST CASUALTY - PART I
Conflict photography considered as bellwether for a dawning understanding
of digital imagery as a new medium - by Stephen Mayes
What makes “a photograph” a photograph? Is the digital image a missed opportunity or a threat to our notion of truth? How has the digital revolution impacted conflict coverage? This two-part essay re-evaluates the anachronous perception of digital imagery as analogue photography. Mayes confronts the language and visual strategies used for the computational medium and questions the meaning of truth in the age of the numerical image.
