Documentary realism of digital image: Peircian indexicality and current issues of veracity photography Documentary realism of digital image: Peircian indexicality and current problems of veracity photography and video Documentary realism of digital image: Documentary realism of digital image : Peircian indexicality and current problems of veracity photography and video
Abstract
The main goal of this paper is to discuss the veracity of a digital image and the possibility of documentary realism in cases of photography and video. Firstly, it reveals that the link between a digital image acquisition and reality is consistent with the one connecting photochemistry image acquisition and reality.
This point of view is grounded in the philosophy of Charles S. Pierce and in the sampling theory, thought of as a part of theory of information.
Secondly, this paper concretizes problems of correspondence concerning the relationship between a taken image and reality. The biggest focus is in this case on the concept of empirical style and its impact on the ethics of photojournalism in the age of image processing.
Then the paper investigates the possibilities of current photography and video used as a source for forensic and legal purposes. Lastly, the text sets up a possible future frame of a digital image as a credible and documentary medium.