Visual Accuracy
Gunning states that a photograph must also have “iconicity”. To represent “truth”, it must resemble the object it represents, which is not an inevitable characteristic of an index.
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Famous quotes containing the words visual and/or accuracy:
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
“As for farming, I am convinced that my genius dates from an older era than the agricultural. I would at least strike my spade into the earth with such careless freedom but accuracy as the woodpecker his bill into a tree.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)