The Age of the Image

This age might be called The Age of the Image, for we have learned as a species to embed such meaning and emotion into a single image that often a single image can reveal an entire history or a wish or desire, a longing for some indefinable essence that the image has awakened in us. Our response to light and shape is packed with the memory of our species and the genetic evolution in which our ability to respond to and distinguish color is quite remarkable, and the cultural co-evolution that provides personal and communal meaning to color and image is equally astonishing.

Digital images do not contain as much" information" as the equivalent image in film. I am told that the range and depth of color is simply not as great in the digital image. Film has more range, more depth. But that is perhaps offset by the instant distribution and maleability of the digital image itself through digital transformation and communication.

So we are capturing and transforming images with "filters" which actually might be regarded as the eyes of aliens that bring a certain distance and originality to how we see an image, and how an image can be transformed into another form. Some have called it morphing.

The capacity to capture and transform images is now literally at our fingertips, and where this may take us is confined only to the limits of our imagination.