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the world of image
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THE NATURE OF IMAGES
What Images Are Image making is perhaps
one of the most complex and ecstatically
human activities. An image is a powerful
experience that is far from being inert—
a simple depictor of objects or places or
people. It is a symbolic, emotional space
that replaces physical experience (or the
memory of it) in the viewer’s mind during
the time it’s being seen. This is true of im-
ages that are strictly representative of a real
place, people, or objects, as well as of
images that are ...