When museums acquire fine art photos, is it always in physical form, or can a digital file itself be an artwork?
When museums acquire fine art photos, is it always in physical form, or can a digital file itself be an artwork? I remember noticing some photos shown on an electronic display screen at the UK National Portrait Gallery, and thinking it was strange that despite the fact that I was looking at a computer screen, the caption said the photos were printed using inkjet. Would I always be looking at a scan of a print in that context, rather than directly at a digi...