MPS 306 Midterm: Idea of Photography – Test Review
18 Jan 2019
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Charles sanders peirce: he was a compulsive taxonomist and offered several logical typologies, peirce referred to signifier and signified as sign and the object. Icon/iconic: a mode in which the signifier is perceived as resembling or imitating the signified, having similar qualities: a portrait, cartoon, metaphors, sound effects in radio drama, dubbed film soundtrack, imitative gestures. In his simulations, baudrillard disagreed: he though watergate wasn"t a scandal, he said that the government corruption wasn"t scandalous but the fact that what watergate reveals about government is a. Hyperreal: dissimulation is a form of pretence or a covering of one"s real feelings, someone who is hungry may pretend not to be to maintain an image of control. Postmodern 1970s: nixon"s administration was bringing the vietnam war to an end, henry kissinger said that peace in vietnam was at hand, he lied, but signalled correctly in the direction the us government was headlining.
