prohibited images achieve significance through their status as prohibited images / singled out they must be suitable for this position in the public eye / difficulty representing these images to general iconoclastic population / practice is for some marginally prohibited images to be variously misrepresented / distortion an obscurity are self-evident distinguishing marks of prohibited images in general iconoclastic population mind / degree to which they realise these images are represented in this distorted misrepresented form varies within the population / likewise degree that censorship acknowledged by iconoclastic government