The Arts | 'The Digital Eye': photographic art in the electronic age | Seattle Times Newspaper

The Arts | 'The Digital Eye': photographic art in the electronic age | Seattle Times Newspaper

You can't trust a photograph — and that's what makes it so fascinating. Some surreal photographic visions involve no wizardry beyond elaborate staging. Other seemingly "natural" shots are the result of self-effacing camera trickery you'd never guess was at work unless you were informed about it. In "The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age," the new exhibit at the Henry Art Gallery, curator Sylvia Wolf places the latest computer-generated advances in the medium in a satisfyingly deep context by prefacing the digital goods on display with two small galleries of work from the pre-digital age. Read more...