388 Purity Test

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of a pure photograph in the context of advanced image generation technologies.

Watch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat! What is a pure photograph? Yes, we have asked this question before and maybe it's a matter of language as much as anything else. But we now have the ability to generate images so photo-realistic that maybe the only distinction left is the linguistic one. Picks of the week: DANGER: Hermes Agent Paul Nicklen This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with Adrian Stock https://adrianstock.com/ (Home) Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios (Card) Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home) All episodes at https://thefutureofphotography.com, All videos at https://tfttf.com/tfopvideo Find us at Discord: https://tfttf.com/jointfop, Web: https://thefutureofphotography.com, Twitter: https://twitter.com/tfopnow, Instagram: https://instagram.com/tfopnow

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Marquardt, Adrian Stock

Topics covered

• photography
• image generation
• linguistic distinction
• photo-realism
• artistic purity

Keywords

• pure photograph
• photo-realistic images
• image generation
• photography discussion
• artistic language

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Future of Photography, Discord, Instagram, Twitter, tfttf.com, adrianstock.com, linktr.ee, chaos.social, thefutureofphotography.com

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