Image ScienceAlmost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchells Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchells now classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image picture distinction, the metapicture, and the biopicture. These key concepts imply an approach to images as true objects of investigationan image