RHETOR 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Fetus, Bell Tower, Osama Bin Laden
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Primary focus on barthes (but can also use eco to complexify barthes" ideas and to serve as a contrast. Life magazine with fetus on cover - example of words imbedded in the image materials) as a result > montage is more appropriate. Montage (similar material in a single image) or collage (different. We generally know what text is not part of the image (ex. Life in white and red box > we know it is the magazine name) Sometimes editor show priority by hiding the magazine label behind an element in the image. Amalgamization (according to barthes): image and text coming together. Barthes would say that this stance exists in all press photographs. That photograph is a message without a code is itself a connotation procedure, a cultural formation. Maybe in the case of a traumatic image (an image beyond verbalization, code, where language stops) Normal trauma vs. truly traumatic trauma that suspends.
