Two things that struck you as particularly important and/or interesting
– “Photography is determined by societal definition, just like everything else”.
-When thinking deeply about photos, the actual medium is transparent and the photo is a replication of the real world
One pertinent question:
-When the author uses “public domain” in the text, is he talking about social media or social platforms?
Three main points that you gleaned from the material:
-When we communicate now through this “public domain” the author describes, we use it as an anonymous voice of authority and only seeking positive affirmation
-A photograph is a “discourse” of some kind, an utterance with a message also implies a photograph is incomplete, looking for others to “read it” or find meaning
-On top of a photo’s primitive meaning, (the one you can see just by looking), there is a second layer of meaning. A level of “connotation” that is more invested.
Vocabulary
–discourse: an arena of information exchange that acts as a system of relations between parties engaged in communication
–tendentious: intending to promote a particular point of view, often a controversial one.
–heliography: is the photographic process invented by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around 1822, which he used to make the earliest known surviving photograph from nature-Denotative: is a translation of a sign to its meaning, precisely to its literal meaning
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