Dialogues

XXX.3 May + June 2023
Page: 34
Digital Citation

Seeing Like a Dataset: Notes on AI Photography


Authors:
Eryk Salvaggio

  The camera began to train photographers in 1816. Photography developed a set of rules, and a photographer may follow those rules when scouring the landscape for images, or else work with the camera to produce new ways of recording the world. Through repetition, the practices become instincts or habits. The camera, as a tool to capture what we see, changes how we see. As the philosopher Vilém Flusser writes, "Photographers have power over those who look at their photographs, they program their actions; and the camera has power over the photographers, it programs their acts" [1].   Insights →…




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