What are the emerging potentials in this post-photographic era for artists, documentarians, and social media image-makers? What, simultaneously, are we losing in this media evolution? Fred Ritchin will try to find the answers during the lecture.
The digital revolution has transformed photography. No longer the automatically credible medium that it once was, a largely faithful recorder of appearances, it has become newly malleable, synthetic, networked, omnipresent, and abundant.
How is post-photography affecting our conception of the actual and the possible? Where is it leading us, and where do we want to go? Fred Ritchin, the author of three books on the future of imaging: In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography (1990), After Photography (2008), and Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen (2013), will try to answer these difficult questions.