RHETOR 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Camera Work, The Steerage, Aestheticism
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Thinking photography: on the invention of photographic meaning ch4. Meaning of a photographic is subject to cultural definition. Task; define and engage critically something we might call the the. The notion of discourse is a notion of limits - the limiting function determines the very possibility of meaning. Discourse: the context of the utterance, the conditions that constrain and support its meaning, that determine its semantic target. Message depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability; message is necessarily context-determined. If we accept the fundamental premise that info is the outcome of a culturally determined relationship, we can no longer ascribe to an intrinsic or universal meaning to the photographic image. Barthes" separation of denotative and connotative functions is not a possible separation. Any meaningful encounter with a photograph must occur at the level of. Every photographic image is a sign of someone"s investment in the sending of a message (every message is characterized by rhetoric)
