1.the possibility that photography can directly influence events in the world
=>Section D: "whether the camera operates as a mute, passive recorder of what is happening or whether it possesses the voice and power to instigate social change."
2.the possibility that the photographic image has become redundant
=>Section E: "It has even been suggested that we now inhabit the 'post-photographic era' - where technological and cultural change has devalued photography to such an extent that events have taken us beyond the photograph's use and value as a medium of communication."
3.images being interpreted in a similar way by different societies
=>Section C: "a photograph of the heavens, whether it showed the sun and moon or the constellations, would immediately be understood in any part of the world."
4.a commonly held view about the relationship between what is visible and how it is interpreted
=>Section B: "The popular notion that 'seeing is believing' has always afforded special status to the visual image."
5.the contrasts of scale that can be represented in photography
=>Section A: "thus allowing human vision to be able to view the fleeting moment or to visualise both the vast and the minuscule."
7,the possibility that the techniques employed in photography today have taken the medium back to where it started
=>Section E: "the advent of digital imagery means that photography, initially born from painting, has turned full circle and has now returned to emulating painting - its progenitor."
8.the ability of photography to provide images that will exist for a long time
=>Section B: "it had the capacity to make such representation enduring."
9.uncertainty as to whether the main purpose of photography is to inform or to entertain
=>Section D: "whether the camera provides images that have a truly educational function or if it operates primarily as a source of amusement."
10.the potential of photography to epitomise the human condition
=>Section A: "the photographic medium has provided one of the most important and influential means of capturing the essence of our being alive."
11.the view that photography was the greatest achievement in the history of visual images
=>Section C: "It was seen not only as the culmination of visual representation but, quite simply, the camera was regarded as a machine that could provide a fixed image."
