MCC-UE 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Connotation, Denotation, War Photography
16 Sep 2016
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Marita sturken: we are the most image saturated people who have ever lived (take & captured & see & share, the way images produce meaning is complex (not just mimesis---not just reproducing the reality) Roger fenton (war photographer: photographers tend to dramatize and sell the tension to the audience, objectivity is very difficult (we cannot just reproduce the realty) Denotation & connotation: denotation: literary meaning / pure description of what happens, connotation: interpretation in certain context (deep meaning/real meaning is purely connotation) The understanding of images: we know how to read and understand the picture or the connection between two pictures (ex: movie, comic-book) Ferdinand de saussure: there is no direct link between words and the real object it means, signified + signifier. Signified---meaning (concept evoked: semiotics: same word can be interpreted differently in different context.
