1. On Analogical Reasoning
2. What is striking in the earliest articulated responses to the invention and dissemination of photography is how often the images it began to pour forth are hailed (or alternatively denounced) as a totally new currency, not only quantitatively but qualitatively different from any previous kind of image production;this sense, legal discourse was vastly different from other nineteenth-century discourses, which tended to exaggerate the novelty of photography as a medium. As photo historian John Tagg notes,1992