As a result of recent technological development, image synthesis has become possible by digital processing. This in turn drastically expanded the potential of photography, calling for the review of conventional definition of photography, and the reconsideration as to what is photography.
With his monochrome straight-print photographs, Jeff Wall has challenged the so-called “traditional” definition of photography. His works, which intentionally incorporated various new elements hitherto unknown to photography, have opened the new field of computerized image synthesis, calling for their right positions in the genre of photography, and the redefinition of the essence of the photography.
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