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This article said that visual story telling (illustration, animation, etc) is important to explain something which is too complicated such as medical situation and science research. The visual images can make audience understand things higher level, have relationship of trust with audience and ensure scrupulous understand of research. And also it can increase wide audiences of scientist and non-scientists.

I watched Stephen Hawking's big ideas... made simple which is in the article. The animation made me understand easily what it said even my first language is not English. Simply I enjoyed the animation. If there is no animation, I must have not understood it at all.

Visual story telling has really strong power.

Stephen Hawking's big ideas... made simple 

(a) "From this day on, painting is dead" said Paul Delaroche, when Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre's photographic inventions were made public. It was a bold and incorrect statement, but Delaroche was a history painter so he may have been mainly reffering to his line of work whereby subject and detail are more important than artistic technique.

(b) Analogue photographs have "continuous spatial and tonal variation", this means that replicating an image requires essentially taking a photograph of a photograph and so there will always be degradation in quality. This problem doesn't arise in digital photography as there is a precise set of "discrete states" that can be replicated without loss of quality.

(c) Edward Weston said a photograph's surface "inherently resists reworking or manipulation". He also argued that manipulation destroyed the integrity of the photograph, similarly to Paul Stand who claimed photo-manipulation was undesirable as the integrity of the medium rests on the "purity of its use"

(d )modernist photography - pure, finished perfection, rounded/complete, unaltered

(e) Institution of journalism, legal system and the scientific community are all possible contenders for the title of hegemony over the standard photographic practice. Photography can provide a trustworthiness to the work of these institutions, as it is a form of evidence in all three. So to be associated with a form of unalterable truth would be a bonus for any of them.