"An intelligent and readable approach to the digitization of images.... A usefuloverview of a critical subject."-- New York Times Book ReviewEnhanced? Or faked? Today the very ideaof photographic veracity is being radically challenged by the emerging technology of digital imagemanipulation and synthesis: photographs can now be altered at will in ways that are virtuallyundetectable, and photorealistic synthesized images are becoming increasingly difficult todistinguish from actual photographs.Continuing William Mitchell's investigations of how weunderstand, reason about, and use images, The Reconfigured Eye provides the first systematic,critical analysis of the digital imaging revolution. It describes the technology of the digitalimage in detail and looks closely at how it is changing the way we explore ideas, at its aestheticpotential, and at the ethical questions it raises.
Continuing William Mitchell's investigations of how we understand, reason about, anduse images, The Reconfigured Eye provides the first systematic, critical analysis of the digitalimaging revolution.
