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ypothetical questions need no answer. Does a viewer's perception of reality distinguish photography from all other forms of image making? Based on cultural conditioning, the photographic “reality effect” makes the image as real as the actual object or scene photographed. This effect seems as strong now as it was when the medium was discovered by Joseph Niépce in 1826, and exerts influence whether actively used by the image creator or not. Infrared radiation capture, by rendering the invisible, appends an interesting anagnorisis to reality perception.
“Every photograph is co-natural with its referent. The photographic referent is the necessarily real thing which has been placed before the lens, without which there would be no photograph.” - Roland Barthes
