Digital Imagery

What is Digital Imagery...

1. How do digital images play a role in your day-to-day life? 

Digital images are everywhere from school to work. Images are used everyday in classroom, whether it's in textbooks or in a presentation. As an art major, digital images are used all day and everyday in school which enhances the learning experience because being able to digitally see an image of a piece of art helps when talking about a piece. 

2. In your personal life? 

Social media rules the world, which makes it impossible to escape digital images. You can spend hours scrolling through just pictures on Instagram, and send images back and forth to friends on snap chat. I take a new picture(s) everyday on my iPhone and send them to people or post them online.

3. In the way you experience your world? 

It's hard to image life with digital images. 

Based on these articles...

https://www.artinstitutes.edu/about/blog/picture-imperfect-digital-image-manipulation-ethics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10558258

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/arts/magazine-editors-and-photographers-on-retouching-photos.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2

https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/resources/digital-media-ethics/

4. What are your thoughts on ethics and aesthetics as it relates to photojournalism and digital imagery manipulation?

I think when it comes to enhances the quality of a photo, it's okay to manipulate the colors or contrast, etc. For art purposes, manipulating a photo is okay as long as everyone understands the photo has been manipulated. For magazines and news, I think it's okay to touch up on flaws, but to completely cut people out or alter body sizes, skin colors, etc. it isn't right because it gives views a false view on reality. It's like lying to people about what other people look like which creates a societal expectation of what beauty is supposed to be. If a photo is going to be drastically changed in the media for a magazine or website etc., it should be stated in a caption that the picture us altered so that people are seeing reality for what it is. 

Famously Doctored Photographs...

http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1924226_1949534,00.html

https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/adobe/140252-30-famous-photoshopped-and-doctored-images-from-across-the-ages

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/bronx-documentary-center-infamously-altered-photos-edits/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/09/hillary-clinton-der-tzitung-removed-situation-room_n_859254.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/egyptian-newspaper-alters_n_719504.html

5. What are your thoughts on these example of these manipulated images?

Most of them were just ridiculous. 

6. Out of all the examples, which one do you believe has the most impact? Why?

The Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama images in the Huffington Post articles because the images were manipulated for political reasons which is a strong political statement itself.