The screen has become the undisputed protagonist and mediator of photographic representation, and the pixel is the minimum unit of information. Any pretension of analogy with reality vanishes in the artificial nature of the latter.

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Le Point de vue du Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1827)

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The White Fence, Port Kent, 1916
Paul Strand
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The Red Ceiling, William Eggleston (1973)

 

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Cock, Robert Mapplethorpe (1985)