Digital witness : revolutions in design, photography, and film / edited by Britt Salvesen, Staci Steinberger, with Christianne Hanych ; texts by Kim Beil, Hye Jean Chung, Carolyn L. Kane, Briar Levit, Britt Salvesen, Staci Steinberger, Anuradha Vikram ; interviews with David Fincher, Copper Frances Giloth, April Greiman, MANUAL, LaJuné McMillian, Rosa Menkman, Bert Monroy, Casey Reas, Thomas Ruff, Kyuha Shim, Raqi Syed, Cesar Velazquez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salvesen, Britt, editor, contributor.

Steinberger, Staci, editor, contributor.

Hanych, Christianne, editor.

Beil, Kim, contributor.

Chŏng, Hye-jin, 1976- contributor.

Kane, Carolyn L., contributor.

Levit, Briar, contributor.

Vikram, Anuradha, contributor.

Fincher, David, interviewee.

Giloth, Copper Frances, interviewee.

Greiman, April, interviewee.

Manual, interviewee.

McMillian, LaJuné, interviewee.

Menkman, Rosa, interviewee.

Monroy, Bert, interviewee.

Reas, Casey, interviewee.

Ruff, Thomas, 1958- interviewee.

Shim, Kyuha, interviewee.

Syed, Raqi, interviewee.

Velázquez Guadarrama, César, interviewee.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

PST ART: Art & Science Collide (Project)

정 혜진, 1976- contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New media art--Exhibitions.

New media art.

Computer graphics--Exhibitions.

Computer graphics.

Photography--Digital techniques--Exhibitions.

Photography.

Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic.

Motion picture industry--Technological innovations--Exhibitions.

Motion picture industry.

Cinematography--Special effects--Exhibitions.

Cinematography.

Digital cinematography--Exhibitions.

Digital cinematography.

Art and computers--Exhibitions.

Art and computers.

Art and technology--Exhibitions.

Art and technology.

Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Modern.

Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Essays.

Interviews.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books, available through ARTBOOK/D.A.P., 2024.

Summary:

"An essential primer on the history of Photoshop and other tools of digital image manipulation, from the 1970s through to the current day. This timely volume, Digital Witness, examines the impact of Photoshop and other tools of digital manipulation, tracing simultaneous developments in photography, graphic design and visual effects over roughly five decades. Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, advances in computer science and engineering made it possible to design, build and run raster graphics programs, while developments in graphical user interfaces allowed artists and designers to directly create and edit images. At the same time, these nascent technologies led to concerns about authorship, automation and the viability of the businesses that supported various creative industries. During the 1990s, following the release of Photoshop, image-editing software rose to widespread use in multiple fields. As digitally altered imagery has permeated popular culture, aesthetic and ethical debates have played out in mass media, politics, advertising and even the judicial system. Examining the relationship between software development and artistic practice, Digital Witness explores how artists and engineers responded to each others’ innovations. Each new version of Photoshop allowed for increasingly sophisticated edits, from tracing intricate paths to layers to editable type. Some artists found creative potential in these advances, taking analog art forms such as collage to digitally enabled extremes. Others resisted the growing dependence on mainstream commercial software, developing open-source alternatives. Published in conjunction with the landmark PST ART exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this substantial, image-packed volume includes Q&As with noted visual artists, filmmakers and designers such as Copper Frances Giloth, Raqi Syed and April Greiman."-- description from https://www.artbook.com/9781636811338.html, accessed 20241127.

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Digital worlds: making the innovation everyday / Britt Salvesen + Staci Steinberger

Image assets. Blur + sharpen: digital realism. Q+A: LaJuné McMillian. Q+A: Bert Monroy

Morph + warp: computer aesthetics. Q+A: Casey Reas. Q+A: Copper Frances Giloth

Cut + paste: digital collage. Q+A: Rosa Menkman. Q+A: Raqi Syed. Q+A: April Greiman

"The paint never dries": the digitization of graphic design / Briar Levit. Q+A: Thomas Ruff

Data and style: the evolution and upheaval of digital aesthetics / Carolyn L. Kane. Q+A: Kyuha Shim

"Those who can see the future": imagining and promoting digital design in the 1980s and 1990s / Staci Steinberger. Q+A: Cesar Velazquez

Beyond the digital surface: uncovering material traces of labor and location / Hye Jean Chung. Q+A: MANUAL

Bearing witness: the evolution of capitalist realism in the digital age / Anuradha Vikram. Q+A: David Fincher

Light and shadow: creating the real, from early photography to deepfakes / Kim Beil

Digital discourse: a chronology

Checklist of the exhibition

Index

Contributors

Board of trustees

Staff

Credits.

Notes:

"PST ART: Art & Science Collide"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized and held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 24, 2024-July 13, 2025.

ISBN:

1636811337

9781636811338

OCLC:

1437722926