@article{ART001305531},
author={Lee kyoung Ryul},
title={The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2008},
volume={12},
number={2},
pages={301-325},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2008.12.2.301}
TY - JOUR
AU - Lee kyoung Ryul
TI - The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2008
VL - 12
IS - 2
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 301
EP - 325
SN - 1598-0685
AB - Digital revolution in the late 20th century brought about fundamental
change in the process of image generation to create ultra-realism with
pixels which human eyes can not sense, and the change keeps going
on with new technologies. As a result of development of such digital
technologies in presentation, synthesis, copying, simulation and 3D
composition, we can not tell an original copy from a duplicate with our
eyes.
But a downside of digital technology is "death of photograph", which
means that such amazing development of digital technology has shaken
the foundation of our belief in conventional analogue images such as
photographs, movies, TV and video as methods of "recording reality".
Development of digital technology has raised an issue of credibility of
original copy, and authentic record and fabrication, loss of aura of originals
caused by unlimited capacity of duplication of digital technology, and
disappearance of artists and their originality and conventional meaning
and conditions of arts.
However, development of digital technology does not mean the end
of arts or death of photographs. Digital imaging, as a means for a
photographer to make images by straightforward way or synthetic way,
may open a new horizon to conventional photography.
And aura of Benjamin is not an object itself but a production of
relationship between a subject and audience, and such shift of point of
view to the relation between a subject and audience is the essence of the theory of photo-index which is one of the most important discourses
of our time. Because a starting point of modern photography is not an
analysis of an image but the fact that, analogue or digital, photograph
is a direct index of reality.
After all, digital image is a means of reproduction for a certain
purpose. An important thing here is credibility(ça a été) which stimulates
imagination of audience, in other words, photographic realism
(analogue) which makes audience believe existence of such situation.
KW - digital;photography;index;Benjamin;aura
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2008.12.2.301
ER -
Lee kyoung Ryul. (2008). The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura. Cross-Cultural Studies, 12(2), 301-325.
Lee kyoung Ryul. 2008, "The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.12, no.2 pp.301-325. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2008.12.2.301
Lee kyoung Ryul "The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura" Cross-Cultural Studies 12.2 pp.301-325 (2008) : 301.
Lee kyoung Ryul. The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura. 2008; 12(2), 301-325. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2008.12.2.301
Lee kyoung Ryul. "The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura" Cross-Cultural Studies 12, no.2 (2008) : 301-325.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2008.12.2.301
Lee kyoung Ryul. The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura. Cross-Cultural Studies, 12(2), 301-325. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2008.12.2.301
Lee kyoung Ryul. The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2008; 12(2) 301-325. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2008.12.2.301
Lee kyoung Ryul. The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura. 2008; 12(2), 301-325. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2008.12.2.301
Lee kyoung Ryul. "The Paradoxes of Digital Photographic Image and the Aura" Cross-Cultural Studies 12, no.2 (2008) : 301-325.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2008.12.2.301
