Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1988
Digital Photography: Captured Images, Volatile Memory, and New Montage, San Francisco: SF Camerawork.

The exhibition was one of the first to combine the terms “digital photography.” The exhibition showed “works by Paul Berger, MANUAL, George Legrady and Esther Parada [that] didn’t look like conventional photographic imagery at all, but rather resembled photomontages, often containing typographical elements and visible pixilation.”
This early digital photography exhibition looks at how digital tools have transformed the photographic medium. The show presented the opportunity for dialogue on the changing nature of digital image creation, storage and composition.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Esther Parada, George Legrady, Paul Berger
Movements
digital art, Digital Photography
Filed under
- Ideas
- memory, photography, photomontage, tools
- Technologies
- Digital Photography, pixelation
- People
- Esther Parada, George Legrady, Paul Berger
- Organisations
- MANUAL, SF Camerawork
- Places
- San Francisco
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