Lev Manovich - During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, s

During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.

- Lev Manovich

source: Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.168, MIT Press

topic: Photography, Reality, Drawing, Camera Obscura