![]() ![]() While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) - a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be. ![]() Such images are indeed able to usurp reality because first of all a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), and interpretation of the real, it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask. the images that have virtually unlimited authority in a modern society are mainly photographic images and the scope of that authority stems from the properties peculiar to images taken by cameras. ![]()
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