Does a poem about an apple automatically have more immediacy than a does poem about a painting or photograph of an apple? I think not.
I guess it depends what you mean by immediacy. If we want to become immediately in touch with the appleness of an apple, the thing itself, then we wouldn't want to place unnecessary layers of interpretation or cognition between us and the apple. It's bad enough that we have to use words, which are already an intrusion on appleness; how could it possibly help us to place another artist's consciousness between us and the apple? If you do that, you're introducing an entirely new subject, and that can only distract from the apple. A given photographer may enjoy photographing apples through gauze, but the one who doesn't use gauze gets a more immediate and accurate depiction of the apple. But even he is left with a photograph, not an apple.
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