Nine 35mm film frames from Stan Brakhage’s Existence is Song, 1987.

Hito Steyerl talks about the transformation of an authentic image and how it changes through time and in the process becomes something called a poor image. In her paper Hito Steyerl gives a definition of a poor image as an image that has bad resolution, lack of quality, image that is accessible, that was re-downloaded and re-edited many times:

This essay is available in issue 10 of Flux Journal

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image