MEDIAST 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hot Gossip, Airbrush
21 Jan 2017
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Through senses we negotiate social relationships with meanings. We willingly make choices to look or not to look. Wanting to be made to look at or have someone take notice of something else entails a play of power. (influence) Power of image to start movements. (gruesome gore to call for action/justice) Convention of paintings in 18th century were to convey realism according to terms of the era. Represents a pipe but not actually a pipe. Digital images similar to analog photographic images in regards of being used as a form of personal expression, family portraits, and documentary evidence. Analog images by def bear physical correspondence with their material referents. Analog images have a scale of tone (intensity for ex. ) Analog images has a delay to see captured images unlike digital images. Digital techniques help artificially create realism (airbrush, clean, reframe, modify) What changed is not the ability to change but the increased accessibility to it.
