Images have always been one of the most important means of communication in the human history. Nowadays they have gained an extraordinary importance, mainly through global communication offered by the Internet. The invention of photograph allowed a gradual increasing in the production and in the use of images. A photographic image has many meanings and must be organized to be used. This implies a definition of its analysis and theme of its contents, and indexing, storage and recuperation. This paper is about some concepts and the history of Images and Photographic Images and about some questions related with analysis and themes of photographic images.
Images; Photographic Images; Photographic Image-Analysis; Photographic Image-themes; Photograph