In this exploration of contemporary photography, David Levi Strauss
questions the concept that "seeing is believing." Identifying a
recent shift in the dominance of photography, Strauss looks at the
power of the medium in the age of Photoshop, smartphones, and the
internet, asking important questions about how we look and what we
trust. In the first ekphrasis title on photography, Strauss
challenges the aura of believability and highlights the potential
dangers around this status. He examines how images produced on
cameras gradually gained an inordinate power to influence public
opinion, prompt action, comfort and assuage, and direct or even
create desire. How and why do we believe technical images the way
we do? Offering a poignant argument in the era of "deepfakes,"
Strauss draws attention to new changes in the technology of seeing.
Some uses of "technical images" are causing the connection between
images and belief (between seeing and believing) to fray and pull
apart. How is this shifting our relationship to images? Will this
crisis in what we can believe come to threaten our very purchase on
the real? This book is an inquiry into the history and future of
our belief in images.
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