What is the significance of being able to translate an image into a collection of data? With the advent of digital photography, photographs can be turned into digital files. This can either be seen as a suggestion to rethink our view of the photographed world, or to point out the limitations of digital photography as compared to analog photography. Perhaps digital is inherently unreal, and does not correspond to actuality.
As digital photography is more and more replacing normal means of photography, what are the effects upon the integrity of photographs as evidence of reality? If reality can be represented as a series of pixels, then reality can feasibly be manipulated by hand. Photography becomes no more representative of reality than more traditional forms of art.
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