Geoffrey Batchen - The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some

The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.

- Geoffrey Batchen

source: Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.134, MIT Press

topic: Photography, Objectivity, Practice, Fabrication, Imaging