RHETOR 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Aestheticism, Roland Barthes, Connotation
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Message is formed by (1) emission (2) channel of transmission and (3) point of reception. In the case of a press photograph, the three parts do not call for the same method of investigation. Structure of photograph is not an isolated structure - in communication with at least one other structure: accompanying title/ caption/ article. Totality of information is carried by two different structures, one of which is linguistic. Nothing is known about the other structure - that of the photograph. Special status of the photographic image: it is a message without a code. Imitative arts comprise two messages (1) denoted message: the analogon itself (2) connoted message: the manner in which the society to a certain extent communicates what it thinks of it. This duality is evidence in all reproductions. In photograph: the first order message in some sort completely fills its substance and leaves no place for the development for a second-order message .
