Photography's Expanded Field

This article was pretty hard to grasp. It talks about a new form of photography: Digital recording. The question whether photography is an art or science is revisited one again, with the introduction of this new technology. Artists use projection to show their photographs. I didn't quite understand the part were Baker talks about "objects in crisis". Why does that make it contemporary? It captures objects in transformation, sometimes extended show time to more than 24 hours by playing the film very slowly. I'm not too sure what the effect of it is supposed to be. Baker introduces statis and narrativity. Different forms of sound without picture or picture without sound appear. Or film with motion or still images. I was intrigued by the not statis quality: how Cindy Sherman falls under that category, every though they are film stills, they are meant to be part of a greater force. Also "counter presence" was interesting. In projecting open ended series of prints, it allows the viewer to fill in the narrative and the story in their mind, making them an important part of the equation.