RHETOR 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: European Migrant Crisis, Intertextuality, Virtual Reality
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Read photograph using the techniques in class. Two kinds of photographic meaning (on the invention of meaning of photograph) - dennotative and connotative levels, intertextuality. Use a press photograph / publicity image - any photograph that circulates in. Any image could potentially be a publicity image public space. Published image was cropped and left out certain portions of the original picture. Also, they may not know what the decisive moment is until they get to the dark room and review the photographs taken. Problem of white space - no matter how large and detailed the photograph, there is still a border. This photo is studied; other parts of the image as well as other photographs taken on scene are called forth - image repertoire . The girl in the picture also becomes a living icon > she immigrated to canada and became a spokeswoman for human rights.
