Uta Barth | Collector Daily
By Loring Knoblauch
In this particular moment in contemporary photography, it seems like we are once again in a battle to define what a photograph actually is. Of late, we are asking ourselves whether AI prompted images are photographs, or generative computational images are photographs, or NFTs are photographs, or certain kinds of video are photographs, and our answers are never quite as definitive or authoritative as we might like. The edges and boundaries of the medium are constantly in flux, which is a healthy thing, since it means photography is alive and actively being tested and extended by its artists; but this very process of reinvention also forces us to reevaluate which parts of the medium actually fundamentally define it as a distinct artistic practice.