https://felix.openflows.com/tags/photography.html Recent content in Photography on n.n. Notes and Nodes by Felix Stalder Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://felix.openflows.com/articles/composite_images.html Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://felix.openflows.com/articles/composite_images.html <p><a href="https://ecal-shop.ch/en/product/automated-photography/" target="_blank"><img src="https://felix.openflows.com/images/automated-photography-01.jpg" alt=""> </a> <a href="https://ecal-shop.ch/en/product/automated-photography/" target="_blank"><img src="https://felix.openflows.com/images/automated-photography-02.jpg" alt=""> </a> </p> <p><em>This is an older article (2021), but perhaps more topical than when it came out, as we continue to grapple with how to deal with generated images. This is why I am putting it up now. Here&rsquo;s the <a href="https://felix.openflows.com/files/Stalder_2021_Composite_Images.pdf">nicely lay-outed version</a> from the book.</em></p> <p><strong>tl&rsquo;dr</strong>: Images, in particular the photographic images, have long ceased to serve as an index of reality. We need new methods of establishing visual truth claims that take seriously the artificiality of all images. Here, I examine and expand on the approach which moves away from claiming to represent reality &lsquo;as it is&rsquo;. Instead, rather, it aims at providing evidence for its factuality in constructing the real.</p>