Dichography: This is how I saw it (So habe ich es gesehen)
About the future images of political events and their perception
Digital composition in the representation of political events
The images show the new photography as an imitation of photojournalism in the future digital era. In the course of the digital era, the perception of photography as a document/time capsule will continue to disappear, as the analogue image carrier has been replaced by digital data sets that can be changed at any time.
Photojournalism are based on the old promise that the imaged trace of reflected light was transmitted almost unchanged onto an analogue image carrier. With a digital image carrier, the promise of an actually imaged trace cannot be kept in the long run.
At first glance, the pictures of the German election rallies show nothing special and one assumes nothing serious about them. The harmlessness of the reality depicted lets the viewer's guard down and at the same time the impression of an authentic photojournalistic documentary truth grows. The interpretations of the sceneries are open and can be used in a variety of ways in the photojournalistic context.
BUT: The scenes did not exist in this way. Objects and subjects are composed of different time levels in the course of the events here. Nothing in these pictures is as it seems and even opposite contents. Or in other words: they are imitations of photographs. These are dichographies.
The series and the essay (only in German language) gives a critical outlook on a possible future photography of political events and reveals the far-reaching change in the perception of photojournalism. The essential question of the future will be how much of the imaged trace of reflected light is actually still present in the images and who has the power over the data?
Artist Newspaper > So habe ich es gesehen
In 1988 was written, which served here as the basis for the practical implementation that began in 2019 and the written essay of 2021 (only in German language).
See also the new publication Die Welt der Neuen Bilder
This work is based on my theoretical work on the future digital "photojournalism" from 1988, which I visualized in 2019. The two essays from 1988 and 2021 have now (2023) been published together with a third essay in the new book "Die Welt der Neuen Bilder".
The development of AI-generated imitations of photography began with the switch from analog to digital image carriers...