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Digitography - Any image made from a digital camera or using digital technology.

Carol E. Williams was the first art professional to publicly refer to digital photography as "digitography" when she was interviewed in Black and White Magazine in 2005. Williams explained that digitography was an important emerging new contemporary art medium and deserved it's own name so that art collectors could be properly informed.

Williams had previously posted a statement on the wall of her gallery in Carmel by the Sea, California using the term. "A photon will never be a pixel" and "photography translated means writing with light" and "ink rather than light is applied to produce digital pigment prints". Williams articulated there is a striking and distinct visual difference between artwork produced from a traditional wet photographic darkroom versa a computer and pigment printing press. Even scanning a negative from film and printing it in a wet darkroom, pixelated the end result.

By January, 2020, Photography West Gallery was the last gallery in the United State exclusively dedicated to showing artist printed, film photography.