id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_6ku4cjcubbcbxeftek34ytf7ke Terence Wright Systems of representation: Towards the integration of digital photography into the practice of creating visual images 1998.0 15 .pdf application/pdf 7197 797 61 In this paper I want to argue that the introduction of digital manipulation to photography, rather than creating a rupture from existing practices in visual representation (for example, bringing about the "death of photography" [Robins 1995: 29]) Alongside other issues concerning the impact of technology on traditional cultural practices, technological change in visual representation is not only inseparable from economic, social and environmental issues, but results in "visual Although the exact purposes of these images remain obscure, pictures in general, with their changing functions over the span of history, have formed an integral part of human culture. Photography not only produced images that were based on the rationale of linear perspective, characteristic of Western visual representation, but the camera was considered to function Indeed, Wartofsky [1980], has maintained that the beliefs derived from representational systems are central to determining a culture's theory of visual perception. ./cache/work_6ku4cjcubbcbxeftek34ytf7ke.pdf ./txt/work_6ku4cjcubbcbxeftek34ytf7ke.txt