seeing & being seen

Form is henceforth divorced from matter. In fact, matter as a visible object is of no great use any longer, except as the mould on which form is shaped. Give us a few negatives of a thing worth seeing, taken from different points of view, and that is all we want of it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Stereoscope and the Stereograph (1859)

Ah, appropriated images, fair use, Google Image Search, newly iconic imagery… some of my favorite photographic issues surrounding original photograph in ubiquitous Obama poster, above. Does the Associated Press have a case?