CS351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Roland Barthes, Photojournalism, On Photography
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The spaces that it comprises the walls, the rooms. Concentrate on one particular work of art within the gallery. Syntagmatic signs related; designed to go together. Do a lot of research look for a cohesive pattern of statements across sources: songs, website, artworks, libraries, reports, statements, etc, collections are never neutral (people choose what goes in and what doesn"t) Identify recurring content (symbols, forms, themes, statements) and the contexts they occur in. Identify rhetoric of truth such as claims like its natural or its scientifically proven or forms in images that heighten believability. Identify pigeon-holding: categories of organization in spaces, protocols, documents. Identify the subject positions produce: intended and unintended audiences, how viewer is addressed, how viewer is formed and coerce or encourages to adopt a role and what the relative power of this role is. Identify your own position, bias, benefit from this work, idea of truth (reflexivity)
