The Paradoxes of Digital Photography - Lev Manovich

The next few paragraphs will merely be some of my thoughts about the text read. It most likely won’t make sense because I am writing as if it is a spider diagram in a sketchbook. - This blog is mainly for myself to look back on and remember the questions that I thought of.

This text was very interesting yet challenging to read in particular parts. The main message that seems to be made is that lots of new technologies are appearing within our industry and somewhat erasing old traditions or techniques. But even though they seem to be new techniques around we are expected and do in fact conform and adapt to this change.
By this type of movement taking place it also allows us to experience new ways of creating and generating pieces of media-, which also opens more employment opportunity. Examples of change would be videocassettes, CD ROMs, DVDs ect. We adapt to this without even realising.

Monovich also suggests that photography is now what painting used to be- you create images, capture and organise. Manipulation is also a common role within photography.
In regards to film, photography can also be linked to movies, as films are in a sense a large amount of moving images. The metaphor of moving making has spread hugely throughout the past ten years we are more familiar with websites such as YouTube ect.

One other factor is that how real can we get when it comes down to films/photographs/games. Are we mixing realism with reality? Does that even make sense? But then we can also ask were much older photographs even real? Have these been manipulated without us even realising? It can be recognised as realism versus montage. 3D art.... is this real? Is this a type of photography? Why?

The text arises so many questions and is so interesting especially when you realise how early this text was even written. It is almost as if Monovich is spouting forth the future through his words. I really enjoy reading texts that allow your brain to start debating and questioning factors that we are so comfortably common with.