Andreas Gursky
[Photographer, b. 1955, Leipzig, Germany, lives in Dusseldorf.]
Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term “photography” has become impossible.
Jeff Wall
[Photographer, b. 1946, Vancouver, Canada, lives in Vancouver.]
Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.
Charles Traub
[Photographer, writer, and critic, b. 1945, Louisville, Kentucky, lives in New York.]
If it can be done digitally, do it.
Jean Baudrillard
[Writer and theorist, b. 1929, Reims, France, d. 2007, Paris.]
When calculation and digital win out over form, when software wins out over the eye, can we still speak of photography?
Gregory Crewdson
[Photographer, b. 1962, Brooklyn, New York, lives in New Haven Connecticut.]
… in this age of Instagram, and pictures on cell phones, and social media, it’s a real challenge to think of the photograph still meaning something important.
Bill Viola
[Artist, b. 1951, New York City, lives in Los Angeles.]
The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.
Susie Linfield
[Writer and critic, New York, lives in New York.]
On the Internet all photographs are equal: including doctored, manipulated, or constructed photographs, and those without any meaningful—or with entirely false—contexts.
Lev Manovich
[Artist, theorist, and critic, b. 1960, Moscow, lives in New York.]
The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.
