Image Science Pathology and even podcasters have used

and even podcasters have used it as a metaphor for connection and identity

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has spent her adult life exploring near-death experiences

Before 1966

Image Science Pathology and even podcasters have usedAlmost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchells Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchells now classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image picture distinction, the metapicture, and the biopicture. These key concepts imply an approach to images as true objects of investigationan image