RHETOR 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Extrusive Rock, Mental Model, Stephen Shore
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Presumption of photograph as an aesthetic object and not a tool of industry trade. Shore uses words and images to reveal that it is possible for visual language to inform and reform our learned assumptions. Reveals how a photograph functions by providing a visual grammar that elucidates the photograph"s meaning. Paralleled in barthes: attributes to photography ot only the power of a self-described linguistic ability but actual presence og mind, turns argument toward philosophy and away from process. Shore"s intent closely approaches szarkowski"s the photographer"s eye , which also divided photography into discrete divisions for critical analysis, difference in shore"s concentration on the photograph and. Shore divides his book into 4 deals - 2 dealing with the physicality of the photograph and two to the cognitive issues of perception. Book describes ways of understanding the nature of photographs (how they function)
