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Angela Grauerholz
Privation Book No. 181 (back), 2001

 

A photograph is "digital" if it was captured by a digital camera, manipulated on a computer, or printed digitally, or a combination of the three. Canadian artist Angela Grauerholz scanned a book that had been damaged in a fire in her studio. She cleaned up the background on her computer and then printed the image on an ink-jet printer.