Photographic Meaning in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Abstract

This article investigates one aspect of the process of digitising photograph collections. The features of a photograph identified in photographic theory as important include the materiality of the object and the context from which it gets its meaning. It is argued that these features are precisely the ones which are destroyed during the digitising process.

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