User:
The answer can be found not in Saussure, but in Charles Peirce.

GPT:
Exactly. Peirce’s semiotics—icon, index, and symbol—offers a framework where photography can finally be thought. Photography is the purest index: a trace caused by its referent. But Peirce also allows for infinite chains of interpretation—semiosis. Thus, the photograph, once reinterpreted, becomes not mere index but symbol. That is where the art of photography begins—when the index transforms into meaning through infinite interpretation.

User:
Finally, a question. If we look at the Second Law of Thermodynamics, entropy moves outward. Painting and literature seem to have followed that direction. Where, then, is photography headed?