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Generally we assume that pictures represent the truth in some sense. Even though we have already determined that a picture has no truth value per se, it is only natural to trust photos to reproduce scenes in the same way as our eyes perceive the real scene. The aura of photography gives pictures a great deal of credibility.
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Strothotte, C., Strothotte, T. (1997). Quo vadis?. In: Seeing Between the Pixels. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60361-7_19
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