Pointing attracts attention. An outstretched finger directs the gaze towards something - but not only that: Recently, various sciences have also focused on the act of pointing itself. The subject of this book is the specific cultural engagement with images and museums, but also with clocks, artworks, clothing, and faces, which leads to these things revealing something to us. Lambert Wiesing contradicts the widespread myth that images show something simply because something is visible in them. A comprehensive and precise philosophical study.