Bernd Arnold
Die Welt der Neuen Bilder: Dokumentarische Fotografie und KI
The world of new images: Documentary photography and AI
Artificial intelligence creates completely new possibilities in the creation of images. For the first time, all the imaging techniques of art history have been brought together in one tool, which can be used by any computer user without special expertise. Images can be created that look like photographs but are not. What does this mean for photography in general and documentary photography in particular? A discussion about these questions is long overdue, considering that trust in the authenticity of photographs has helped shape human history for almost 200 years.
Bernd Arnold, author and photographer of "Das Kölner Heil" and "Wahl Kampf Ritual", is convinced that we will enter a new world when authentic photos and AI-generated photographic imitations compete with each other in the formation of our view of the world and history. In three essays, he analyses the technological and perceptual history of photography, explains the new and innovative nature of AI and looks at the future role of documentary photography and its producers.
The author: Bernd Arnold, born in Cologne. Studied photography at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Graduated in 1990 with a series of pictures of Cologne's demimonde milieu. Since then, Arnold has worked continuously on aspects of German society, focussing on religion, politics, the demimonde, the media and the business world. He organises his work into cycles such as "Power and Ritual" or "Digitalis". Book publications include: Das Kölner Heil (1997), Wahl Kampf Ritual (2013). Exhibitions including: Bilderstrom - Der Rhein und die Fotografie 2016-1853 at LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn (2016), "Augen Auf! - 100 Jahre Leica" at Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2014), "Macht und Ritual" at Stadtmuseum Köln (2006). Member of the German Photographic Society (DGPh), the German Photographic Academy (DFA) and VISUM (Agency for Photography).
Bernd Arnold
Die Welt der Neuen Bilder
Dokumentarische Fotografie und KI
Softcover, 14.5 cm x 19.8 cm
144 pages, 25 bw illustrations
morisel Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-943915-60-0
Price: 19,90 Euro
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