Introduction To The Photographic Image In Digital Culture

Martin Lister
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The immense obsession with modern image technologies, such as virtual reality hardware, has negatively impacted the perception of today’s media by setting false images that reach the observer’s eye. In virtual reality (VR), while VR gadgets such as Microsoft VR that provide viewers with a fully immersive experience in gaming, they also create a whole new way of seeing the world. In Kevin Robert’s words, this approach has become the new “techno-fetishism” of the 21st century (Lister, 1995). However, such obsession has led to the creation of technologies that have painted fake pictures of newness using mirrors that hide the reality of events. Photographers will no longer need to record real events using the old approaches of photography, but will capture images and other visual media with the new creativity that h...