# Pictures in the Flesh- Presence and Appearance in Pictorial Experience Jérôme Dokic **Opening (not a real abstract):** In the late 1940s, Wittgenstein explored a number of perceptual phenomena related to what he called ‘seeing something as something else’, or ‘seeing an aspect’. One of his favourite family of examples involved ambiguous or bistable figures, such as the famous duck–rabbit drawing. It is generally considered that most of these examples actually concern two distinct perceptual abilities, whose relationship needs further clarification. The first is the ability to see something as an F, in the narrow sense which characterizes ordinary or face-to-face perception. In this sense, I can see a candle as a candle rather than, say, as a white-cedar wooden stick. The second ability can be called ‘seeing-in’, and characterizes the experience of (more or less realistic) pictures.1 In the latter sense, I can see **Authors:** [[Jérôme Dokic]]