..There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain, " nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.Dave Hickey
About This Quote
This quote is very important because it shows that all images are on some level political. This means that all images are capable of making statements and statements must be taken seriously. There are no neutral or non-political images. A picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes the words written are not always the same as the ones spoken.
This is because the words spoken are only one side of the story and they do not tell the whole story. It may be that there was another message that was not meant to be communicated in the image, but was not clear enough to discern. This can be done by using symbolism, subliminal messages, or hidden messages.
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