Part 1
"Photographs may have placed greater importance on the visual over the written. A picture, after all, is worth a thousand words."
The idea that Photographs could have placed greater importance on the visual over the written is most has some merit to it. Certainly identifying objects in a picture is as basic and natural a function as there could be for most people. Reading written language takes quite a bit more effort to do.
By comparison, the training needed to process even basic written language versus the simplicity of identifying objects with no training should make it clear that at our most basic level we can easily relate with images. Lets not forget that many children start off learning language by relating words to pictures when learning even their own native language. ‘Left-brained’ or ‘right-brained’ verbally oriented or spatially oriented it all rests on a foundation set upon relating to the world first visually.
With this is mind it makes sense that the in 10 short years early American publications went from an average 100 pictures per week to around 903 picture per week (Keller 2007, 163). Pictures draw attention to themselves as a reader scans a page, and even in the modern world where photo retouching is commonplace a photo brings a sense of authenticity. A viewer can pick out the pieces of an image that they can relate too and carry that same relationship to the parts they are not familiar with. When a viewer sees a picture of savannah in Africa they can project themselves into the area. If they visited that same place they would be able to pick out the elements from the picture. A written description while possibly igniting a desire to visit an area being described intellectually or by a...
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...tion, department stores were, and still are, places where consumers are an audience to be entertained by commodities, where selling is mingled with amusement, where arousal of free-floating desire is as important as immediate purchase of particular items” (Williams 2007, 172).
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Having such an image before our eyes, often we fail to recognize the message it is trying to display from a certain point of view. Through Clark’s statement, it is evident that a photograph holds a graphic message, which mirrors the representation of our way of thinking with the world sights, which therefore engages other
In the chapter, “The Mirror with a Memory”, the authors, James Davidson and Mark Lytle, describe numerous things that evolved after the civil war, including the life of Jacob Riis, the immigration of new peoples in America, and the evolution of photography. The authors’ purpose in this chapter is to connect the numerous impacts photography had on the past as well as its bringing in today’s age.
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For this source I chose the article, In Plato 's cave by Susan Sontag. The source talks about all of the different ways society looks at photographs. In the quote by Sontag she says,
Sontag, Susan. "Essay | Photography Enhances Our Understanding of the World." BookRags. BookRags. Web. 15 Apr. 2014.
The desire to stop time and preserve the way things were are the primary reasons why the majority of photography in the late nineteenth century focused on documenting dying traditions, practices, and ways of life...
Marrs, Suzanne. Eudora Welty(tm)s Photography: Images into Fiction. Critical Essays on Eudora Welty. W. Craig Turner and Lee Emling Harding. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1989. 288-289.
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