MEDIAST 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Digital Image, Roland Barthes, Medieval University
24 Jan 2017
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Creation of an image involves some degree of subjective choice through selection, framing, and personalization. Even in surveillance cameras someone has chosen specific space and frame for a particular part. Camera creators also made decisions based on social and aesthetic norms invisible to user (relieving the user the need to make various formal decisions. Positivism: philosophy that scientific knowledge is the only authentic knowledge and concerns itself with truths of the world. Individual actions of the scientist came to be viewed as a liability in the process of performing and reproducing experiments, as it was thought that the scientist"s own subjective actions might influence or skew objectivity of the experiment. Photo unlike drawing offers an unprecedented conjunction between here now (the image) and what was there then (referent) Studium: describes function of truth in photograph (order of the studium also refers to the photographs"s ability to invoke a distanced appreciation for what the image holds)
