Photography: The Spark of the Real
Photo - latin, light.
Graphy - write.

Word image rivalry.
Which is more effective, word or image, similar.

Image is too broad a catagory.
Image works like a word. Pipe, not one specific, a catagory of objects. Words do not refer to individual things. shoe, sign: no shoes, refers to all shoes.

Cartoon hand, realistic hand. Cartoon easier to recognize. What we rocognize is less than what we see. basic pattern.

van gough - peasant shoes. painting refers to this particular pair of shoes.
Magritte, pipe. Not a particular pipe, all pipes. closer to a sign.

Roland Barthes.
Photographic image has a referent.
'can you put out that pipe'
'take off those shoes'

contarst with photos and how words work.

not all photographs refer to 'thisness' ambush you with the real. studium, visual, cliche, stereotypes, cultural, seen as an illustration. unexpected flash of reality.
Punctun - latin, point or blindspot. punctuation.