How Much Significant Photographic Realism Is Today

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The section of the passage titled ‘Photographic Realism (resurrected)’ is a vivid analysis of how much significant photographic realism is today. The passage also gives two conflicting views and opinions of photographic realism, bringing forth an argument of those who have stressed the photographic image's privileged status as a trustworthy mechanical analog of reality and those who have stressed its constructed ideological character. The passage puts in more weight on the realist position, giving it an upper hand than the digital forms of images. It is a realistic representation of the objects on the camera and hence a realistic image. It is a guaranteed casual link with the actual world.
I do not agree with the arguments in the passages. The discussion tends to propose, in hindsight that digital images are not an actual represent...