Photography Between Document and Art: Memory and Technology as Catalysts

For centuries, the question of whether photography belongs to the realm of the document or of art has haunted its history. André Rouillé, in Photography: Between Document and Contemporary Art (2009), makes this clear: from 19th-century police archives to late-20th-century conceptual installations, photography has never been univocal. It has oscillated between evidence and fiction, between […]
The Transition of the Image: From Renaissance Perspective to Generative AI

How has the use and the perception of the image changed across history? If during the Renaissance the painting was understood as a window to the world, today in 2025 we are surrounded by generative images that no longer depend on an external referent but on algorithms and data sets. Between those two extremes, the […]
The Civil Contract of Photography

A reading of Ariella Azoulay – The Civil Contract Part I. From technical image to civic scene Ariella Azoulay argues that every photograph opens a civil relation among three figures who owe something to one another the maker the person who appears and the viewer. She calls this […]
Machine Visions, Hybrid Painting, and the Life of Images: Reading Joanna Zylinska

Introduction Joanna Zylinska’s AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (2020) offers a sharp and critical entry point into understanding how artificial intelligence reshapes not only the production of images but also our perception of them. Far from the usual binary debate about whether machines can be “creative,” Zylinska reframes the conversation to ask what […]