For a photograph has in common with a painting the property by which the painting represents the world the property of sharing in some sense the appearance of its subject. It is sometimes thought that since a photograph more effectively shares the appearance of its subject than a typical painting photography is a better mode of representation. Photography might even be thought of as having replaced painting as a mode of visual representation and a photographer can change the atmosphere or feel of an image and chooses what the story of an image will be. A photographer who can achieve for aesthetically significant representation by controlling detail and interfering with the causal relation between the photograph and its subject yields a picture which is not a photograph of its subject. Being a representation is not an intrinsic property of an object to be a representation is to be used in a certain way in order for the image itself to be principle vehicle of representational thought requires painterly control over detail and spectator distraction from the causal relation between depiction and the subject.