The emergence of computerized image enhancement systems raises ethical and philosophical questions about notions of belief in photo-representational media. Those who have access to these technological systems have the capacity to alter, reconstruct, or create imagery reflective of the "real world" which might be passed off as representing "truth". My photographic work with computer technology is a continuation of an inquiry into the discrepancies between perceived truth, and misrepresentation in the photographic message. The images have been taken from commercial television and visually processed through the AT&T Targa Truevision Still Imaging computer system. In specific, they refer to the stylistic presentations of news broadcasting: The ways that roles are defined through an iconography of authority and other connotative components that are largely hidden behind the master narrative. (G. Legrady)

Technical background:

The images were processed on TARGA 16 Truevision, IBM AT and Video Link, using TIPS software and custom image processing software for contrast, colour shifting and “noise” integration. The hardcopy was made on a Tetgraphix, Westwood, as a ink-jet plotter drawing 24 x 30".

Links: https://www.mat.ucsb.edu/g.legrady/glWeb/publications/p/1980sJetgraphixOPT.pdf

George Legrady, Canadian artist, born 1950 in Budapest, living and working in the USA. From 1968 to 1970 he frequented Loyola College in Montreal/Quebec. From 1972 to 1974 studies at Goddard College in Vermont, making his M.F.A. 1976 at the San Francisco Art Institute. Consequently, Legrady performed teaching activities at various universities, e.g. the California Institute of the Art, the University of Western Ontario and the North Texas State University. Since 1984 he is at the USC School of Fine Arts, lecturing photography. Besides that, Legrady realizes various pro ects and photo-documentations (research and documentation of the Socialist Iconography in Berlin (East), Prague and Budapest, 1983 ; Documentation of advertizing in China, 1985). Numerous one-man and group exhibitions in Canada, the USA and various European Countries (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum Rotterdam). He received several awards by the Canadian Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Legrady is an artist working at the integration of photography and computer technology.