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Digital Imaging & Photography
Michael Scott Sheerin, M.S.*
Why Study Digital Imaging and Photography?
• Digital imaging and photography is the most popular and ubiquitous visual medium in the world, and its growth has accelerated at a pace never seen before.
• Digital imaging and photography offers a way to place our world in context, as well as a way to document our daily lives.
• Digital imaging and photography, coupled with social media apps, make it easier to be creative, and make it easier to share our creations with others in real time.
Big Brother is watching you.
—from Orwell’s 1984
Butfirst, let me take a Selfie.
—The Chainsmokers, 2014
Introduction
George Orwell’s classic fictional novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
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