In Defense of The Poor Image
2009
"The poor image is an illicit fifth-generation bastard of an original image." - pg1
"The contemporary hierarchy of images, however, is not only based on sharpness,but also and primarily on resolution." - pg.3
"Poor images are poor bequest they are not assigned any value within the class society of images - their status as illicit or degraded grants them exemption from its criteria." - pg.6
"While it enables the users' active participation in the creation and distribution of content, it also drafts them into production. Users become the editors, critics, translators, and (co-)authors of poor images." - pg.6
"The poor image thus constructs anonymous global networks just as it creates a shared history." - pg.8
The information that Min shared about the history of the jpg was extremely interesting and directly related to the content of the article.
I also feel that as time progresses the "quality" of poor images will increase. As storage grows and the cloud lets us take more and more photos there are more digital images around. The resolution of images also continues to increase, but not the technical skill or "quality". how many selfies and food pictures does the world need people?!?
Thomas Ruff, jpeg nt01
"What I find interesting is the specific ways in which this format affects what we see, and how a set of arbitrary decisions made by the group have governed all visual representations using this format."
-Some Thoughts on the Poor Image by Robert Carter
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