ABSTRACT
Digital photography brought about a change of emphasis in the role of the camera. Digital photography provides the mechanical means to cut across such distinctions. The computer manipulation of photographic images has radically challenged our conception of photography. First, the purity of the photograph is undermined: its reliability as evidence is now highly questionable; then, a totally new range of possibilities for the display of images is beginning to emerge. The possibilities of transforming photographs by digital processing have altered our theoretical perceptions of photography to the extent that we can no longer be certain that the photograph can provide, in any way at all, evidence of states of affairs in a real world. Although digital photography has rapidly overtaken analogue photography in the news media, there appears to be no significant change in the type of images that photographers take. One must remember that technological change has always taken place in photography since the time of the medias invention.
