ABSTRACT
A practice theoretical perspective underscores the ways in which a focus on practices necessarily reorients our understanding of bodies and their relation to their environments. Image sensors became important, at an early stage, for the development and spread of digital cameras, CCD and CMOS sensors, developed in the 1960s, are still in widespread use in consumer cameras, along with a wide variety of professional domains. A processual approach to photography allows discussion of digital photographic practices in extension of a continuum from historical photographic uses, instead of claiming a strict break with the past. This chapter discusses the picture that is based on surface markings made with the aid of mobile and wearable camera technology. Similar algorithms for creating predictive pictures are available for everyday snapshot photography. This analysis suggests that digital photography in day-to-day life, particularly mobile and wearable camera technology, cannot be understood through reliance on the idea of 'film-like digital photography'.
