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Quite an interesting discussion going on in the degree thread.
Simon Ess said: "Each individual will have a slightly different interpretation, or perhaps not so slight. It will, as droj suggests, be influenced by culture (a huge subject on its own), by personal experiences, by attitudes, by expectations, reaction to challenge or confirmation of belief systems etc. etc.."
Which brings me to Discontinuities. As part of my course at the moment I'm reading Berger, The Ways of Telling, in which the context within which a photograph is produced, distributed and consumed determines the information it conveys. If a photograph cannot convey the experience of the event depicted, then John Berger called this discontinuity and argued that this makes the photograph ambiguous. Without words to fill the gaps left by the broken continuity, people fill in those gaps based on their experiences, culture, everything mentioned above really. Once words are used, Berger states 'they produce together an effect of certainty, even dogmatic assertion'.
Below are some images which I'd like short captions or explanations for. Without knowing what they are, as mentioned above you'll be applying your own influences so I'd be really interested in any comments you have to make please.
I'll add my comments later.
Many thanks
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Simon Ess said: "Each individual will have a slightly different interpretation, or perhaps not so slight. It will, as droj suggests, be influenced by culture (a huge subject on its own), by personal experiences, by attitudes, by expectations, reaction to challenge or confirmation of belief systems etc. etc.."
Which brings me to Discontinuities. As part of my course at the moment I'm reading Berger, The Ways of Telling, in which the context within which a photograph is produced, distributed and consumed determines the information it conveys. If a photograph cannot convey the experience of the event depicted, then John Berger called this discontinuity and argued that this makes the photograph ambiguous. Without words to fill the gaps left by the broken continuity, people fill in those gaps based on their experiences, culture, everything mentioned above really. Once words are used, Berger states 'they produce together an effect of certainty, even dogmatic assertion'.
Below are some images which I'd like short captions or explanations for. Without knowing what they are, as mentioned above you'll be applying your own influences so I'd be really interested in any comments you have to make please.
I'll add my comments later.
Many thanks
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#2
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#3
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#4
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