Seduction or Proof? Revealing Assumptions in the Negotiation of Perceived Reality Through Images
Throughout the history of Western thought, images are dismissed in the search for truth claiming their seductive nature (Plinius, 2007) and at the same time they are used as proof e.g., in Geometry (Nelsen, 1999), documentary photography (Sontag, 1973) or political argumentation (King, 2014).All images are objects which represent a selection of wha