RHETOR 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Osama Bin Laden, Cultural Imperialism, Photojournalism
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Photographic significance/ irony - duality of structure, connotative meaning that can be related to the literal as well as more cultural ways. It bears no connotative meaning, actually being a message without a code. Barthes and sontag both claim that photographs reassure us, giving us some kind of order (not necessarily comfort) Ex. picture of 911 - gives us a beginning of explanation. Ex. situation room picture they are black > power relations. Think about the perspectives of photo viewer when they are white, when. Ironic that america upholds legal order yet assassinated osama bin. But did not circulate the picture of a dead bin laden - image of. Not only is photography about shaping information, but ask the question of purpose, acting according to moral principles which dictate what we show and what we do. Aggression is paradoxical because it is strictly violent but also an effect of.
