SoftwareStudies
Posts from Cultural Analytics Lab directed by Lev Manovich. (The lab was called Software Studies until 2016).
05/21/2026
When did photography really become “automated”? Not just with AI or digital cameras, but across two centuries of technical changes in capture, editing, and distribution.
I just finished a long interactive timeline that maps this process from early 19th‑century photography to AI image generation today, building on ideas from my dissertation and later articles.
https://levmanovich.github.io/manovich-interactive/photo/
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