NOTES ON what do pictures really want by JWT Mitchell

Great about Mitchell's paper on the desire of picture, instead of the power. During semiotic interpretation of the picture as an ethic minority, a female or an animal -- any 'other' -- whose identity is defined by the socially powerful beholders. By referring to famous pictures (with faces) that demonstrated or implicated various kinds of relationships between the pictures and the beholders, he legitimated the right and autonomy of picture and celebrated the multiplicity of the modern identity of the pictures contrasting to their pre-modern status of them. As the end he addressed that what the pictures really want might be asked that what they want -- any effort of understanding and interpreting them as pictures themselves.