first was the camera, then came the chemical as a method of preserving the image automatically, mechanically.
the photograph is, therefor, a mechanical recording of light from a camera.
the more automatic it is, the better, as a corollary. without intervention meaning a truer presentation of what was.
this should mean that digital is more a photgraph than is a chemical image.
digital, not chemical. silicon over silver.
halide free and victorious.

out of the dark, at last, out of the dark, and free

Ursula K. Le Guin

“Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between the production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not quite the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship. (Thank you, brave applauders.)”

—Author Ursula K. Le Guin at the National Book Awards

digital photography works against the grain