In this sense, the value granted to photography as evidence was not so much linked to its faithfulness or the degree of accuracy in representing its referent, but to its ability to eliminate human hands from the process of recording and representing the world.
En este sentido, el valor que se otorgaba a la fotografía como evidencia no estaba ligado tanto a la fidelidad o al grado de exactitud con que ella podía representar a su referente, sino a su capacidad de eliminar la mano del hombre del proceso de registro y representación del mundo.