While reading Hito Steyerl’s In Defense of the Poor Image, I believe that Steyerl is arguing that even though a low quality/resolution image appears to the mass majority, we are still able to process what the image is. It might have lost its details, however, this is the easiest way for most to access the image, which is by receiving a low resolution jpeg online. Steyerl also states that the more we open and save the jpeg file from the web, the more it loses its quality, hence we get a lower resolution than it is before. I find it interesting how Steyerl suggests that poor quality imagery conditions the viewers in a positive effect and how we tend to reformat the file; “The condition of the images speaks not only of countless transfers and
