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The all-seeing AI

31 May 2025

9:00 AM

31 May 2025

9:00 AM

The Synthetic Eye: Photography Transformed in the Age of AI Fred Ritchin

Thames & Hudson, pp.204, $53.00

Artificial intelligence has overturned many of the old rules, and the one about ‘seeing is believing’ was perhaps the first to go. Ritchin, a respected photography critic and academic, has been thinking about the interactions between traditional image-making, computer-manipulated images and AI for a long time, and in The Synthetic Eye he takes a deep dive into the subject.

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