The move to new, digital photography involves a revolutionary shift in the conceptual and technological fundaments that have dominated traditional photography for over 150 years. Besides the use of a new basic vocabulary, the treatment of digital images means access to a new discursive field. This article is an attempt to establish, analyse and clarify the new concepts and tools necessary to obtaining the best from the new (still ill-defined) field of systems and appliances for capturing, converting, treating and optimising digital photographic images that is with us already and that defines the present as well as the future of images.
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