Digital images have been under suspicion of manipulation not just since the discussions about "deepfakes" and generative AI. While in the 1990s any digital image evidence seemed questionable, pragmatic answers have since prevailed. Whether and how digital images have actually been manipulated can in many cases be proven by using methods of image analysis and comparative data evaluation. Such practices of image forensics are the focus of this volume. A look at scientific as well as aesthetic procedures, at criminalistic methods, popular television series and artistic practices shows how suspicion towards images itself becomes productive: It not only produces new images, but also a new processual understanding of digital imagery.
- Interdisciplinary overview of current debate on the truth content of digital images
- Including essays on professional, popular and artistic forms of image forensics