“Computer-held data can also be used to create images that simulate photographs without a camera. While it is true that these electronic images trade on the authority that photographs have, and are usually based on other photographs, they are nonetheless a deception, If it is its ‘believability’ that gives the photograph its status in socicty (‘I was there and this is what I saw’), are computer-generated images no more than sophisticated fakes? ” ― Paul Hill, (‘Chapter Nine: Radical Changes and the Imaging Future’, Approaching Photography, 2nd Edition, 2004, Photographers' Institute Press, ISBN 1 86108 323 8, p163)

— Approaching Photography by Paul Hill (Page 163)