September 2005
Beginner
192 pages
4h 29m
English

Figure .
“The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.” | ||
| --Harold Evans, “Pictures on a Page” | ||
It seems unfeeling to speak of converting a photograph to data. Whether the photo is of a soldier at the moment of his death or a centerfold at some less painful moment, surely no one would suggest that all that is beautiful and exciting in a work of art can be reduced to a few million binary numbers. Well…yes, we would. As unromantic as it might seem, nearly anything can be expressed as numbers.
The blue of your true love’s eyes? That’s PANTONE 468. The rousing opening chords of Beethoven’s Fifth? ...
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