Abstract

This article focuses on what is description in the images based on the mechanical technology, rooted in the XIX century, and which are nowadays used by science as a means of obtaining information. This technological aspect, within the scope of Image Theory, constitutes a fundamental dimension for the understanding of contemporary representation. In order to understand the articulation between technology and what is described through it, images in which this connection is not evident will be interrogated, trying to access core elements of the notion of visual description. This articulation is anchored in a phenomenological approach, based on Husserl’s Theory of Image, in the context of a philosophy of Depiction.