Whether Kirshenblatt's visual account is accurate or embellished hardly matters; it's the remarkable results that count.
At Axis you get something else: a visual account of the life-and-death politics of racial warfare and government terrorism, which are equally part of the story.
There is little of the violence, warring and drug snorting that spiced earlier visual accounts of the Yanomami and seemed to confirm Mr. Chagnon's label.
But by providing a visual account of how police forces across the country have changed and how they are using the extraordinary weapons they've been given by the Pentagon Atkinson has performed a public service.
Sand and dust, sand and dust: you may be tempted to wash your hands by the end of this heavily visual account of the re-enactment last year of the 1907 road rally from Peking to Paris.
His detailed record of the Cuban landscape, said to be the most comprehensive visual account of that country by an American artist up to that time, ranges from close-up renditions of plants and foliage to a panoramic view -- the largest work in the show -- of the Bay of Matanzas, the region that was the center of the sugar industry.
In his report, Lord Justice Leveson approvingly quoted the Metropolitan commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe's view that it was crucial that "the individuals who are the suspects or are the subject of arrest when you get there, or were being sought when you arrived, are not identified, and there should be nothing, the written nor the visual accounts, that allow that to happen".
Walsh concludes with a reminder that the photos are also important for what they don't show: "Although the photos are a disturbing visual account of particular incidents inside Abu Ghraib prison, they should not be viewed as representing the sum total of what occurred".
But Junior fails to offer a visual account of Ken Griffey Jr. (To be fair, there are some current baseball nicknames that match up with those given to the old timers. Rocket fits Roger Clemens's rising fastball. Of course, he acquired "Rocket" as a rookie about 17 years ago. If Clemens were starting out today he would probably be called Clem).
The White House, by posting the work of its official photographer, Pete Souza, on Flickr hours after events rather than years later in a memoir or coffee-table book, is providing what amounts to a real-time visual account of a historic debate.
