Projected Moments

What we call a photograph and what it has become over the last two centuries is interesting. The first photograph was a photogram, drawn with light without a camera or lens. Today a photograph can be an image of the gamma ray distribution in the Milky Way Galaxy. It can even be something drawn with a certain kind of camera without light or a lens. With synthetic images the computer is the camera and there is no light or lens.

In some instances, the new tools and materials are blurring the c...