We compute the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon in the
Poincare-covariant Faddeev framework based on the Dyson-Schwinger equations of
QCD. The general expression for a baryon's electromagnetic current in terms of
three interacting dressed quarks is derived. Upon employing a rainbow-ladder
gluon-exchange kernel for the quark-quark interaction, the nucleon's Faddeev
amplitude and electromagnetic form factors are computed without any further
truncations or model assumptions. The form factor results show clear evidence
of missing pion-cloud effects below a photon momentum transfer of ~2 GeV^2 and
in the chiral region whereas they agree well with experimental data at higher
photon momenta. Thus, the approach reflects the properties of the nucleon's
quark core.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figures, 2 table