A fotótörténet mint technológiai képtörténet. Megjegyzések az analóg, a digitális és a szintetikus (fény)képekről
The History of Photography as a Technological History of Images: Notes on Analogue, Digital and Synthetic (Photo)Images

Summary/Abstract: This study proposes a visual-cultural historical narrative grounded in the distinctions between analogue, digital and synthetic photographs. The approach is relevant not only to the history of photography but also to its theoretical frameworks. Alongside outlining the principal ideas, concepts, theories and authors associated with this narrative, the study examines the notion and contemporary phenomenon of photo-based synthetic images. My argument is that the position of these images is difficult to determine, not merely because images have become especially easy to transform in the digital age, but also because the authorial functions and positions associated with synthetic images (often termed promptography) remain theoretically unresolved in the Foucauldian sense. Although programming constitutes an act of authorship, and human agents participate in every phase of image production – as photographers, programmers, users, mediators or interpreters – the status of authorship in relation to synthetic images is still far from clear.

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