Manovich 5 Quotes

#1. 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

#2. While in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography.

Lev Manovich

#3. We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.

David McRaney

#4. The reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

Lev Manovich

#5. Be yourself and look outside of yourself.

Larry Towell

#6. The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Bill Cosby

#7. Cynicism is intellectual treason.

Norman Cousins

#8. Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database ... the problem today is no longer how to create the right image, but how to find an already existing one.

Lev Manovich

#9. A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

Alexander Pope

#10. Seasickness ... is caused ... by the disturbance ... to the inner ear " he said. " You just need ... to ... look ... at ... the horizon ... " His last words disappeared as he vomited violently over the side of the boat. "What's wrong " "Doctor Death is seasick.

Kate Forsyth

#11. We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.

Lev Manovich

#12. Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

Lev Manovich

#13. Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

John Dewey

#14. The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.

Lev Manovich