“Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation, or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”
What do you think- do the traces of light onto the film or sensor capture make photography unique to any other art form? Is this what makes photography unique? Do you believe that photography even captures a trace of the image- or do you disagree altogether? How does digital photography factor in, or does it?
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