Hito Steyerl: In Defense of
the Poor Image
The text's focus on 'poor' images is really fascinating because the assumption that an image may be poor entitles the idea that any image can be objectively rated or valued in relation to others. She makes the obvious points about resolution and focus being things that make a photo or image a technically good picture. I have recently also experienced a lot of these moments of video/image hifi-obsession when a person is reluctant or refuses to exhibit/critique/consider an image because of a lower-than-usual or worse image resolution. I think that the value of an image can not be clearly stated, but Steyerl puts it well when she says that images can carry a traces of a story through the 'digital dispersion' of them. And images are mere reproductions of our imagination or of reality - they are not the originals anyway.
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