RHETOR 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Roy Decarava, Intertextuality, Aestheticism
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Does not need to be a press photograph (eg. published in a major newspaper), Ok to pick a sequence if there"s where the image appears (as well as the but have to have circulated publicly sequence in context) 1 image, 2nd image which shows the context in which the photo is present (unlike what sekula says, images do not fall from the sky) Images have multiple discourse situations! (situation room paper: secretary of the state, ny times) Track circulation: do not need to include original moment of circulation of the photo, just the original moment in the specific situation you are extracting the image from. Can think about it intertextuality - consider relations to paratextual elements in the context, consider images/ texts that are lacking in the situation. Photograph appears as a message without a code. There is slippage between the idea of a photograph as a channel and as a message.
