 Defining the problem: what is difficult about reading photographic images? |
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What is difficult about reading images (in general)? |
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Problem 1: Visual language differs from verbal language |
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Problem 2: The image is losing its illustrative role |
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Problem 3: Images are not universal |
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Problem 4: Emancipation of the image: the visual turn |
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Problem 5: Mediation of the image |
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What is difficult about reading photographic images? |
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Problem 1: Photographic language differs from verbal language |
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Problem 2: The strongly reduced illustrative role of the picture |
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Problem 3: Pictures are not universal |
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Problem 4: Photography as a trigger of the visual turn |
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Problem 5: Mediation and the social use of pictures |
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The difficulty of visual literacy |
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Two visions of visual literacy |
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Meaning as a social process |
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Two false problems and a real one |
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What is an image? |
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What to do (at school)? |
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 Reading photographic images: aspects of the image |
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Identifying the first technical aspects |
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First steps of content analysis |
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The status of the photographic image |
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Three levels of photographic content analysis |
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| Reading photographic images: relationships of the image |
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Time, story, memory (and fiction) - relationships of the image with time, stories, memory (and fiction) |
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Snapshot or story? |
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Picture's story or spectator's story? |
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Document or monument? Fact or Fiction? |
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Authorship - the problematic relationship between the photographic image and its author |
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Three possible stances towards this problem |
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Proposed solution: a multi-focus interrogation of authorship |
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Readership - the relationship between the photographic image and its beholder |
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Questions surrounding readership from a theoretical point of view |
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Questions surrounding readership from an empirical point of view |
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The issue of mediation - the relationship between a photographic image and its host medium |
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From medium to mediation |
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Examples of the importance of medium and mediation |
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Publication and reception history - the relationship between a photographic image and its publication and reception history |
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What if publication and reception history are absent? |
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Which questions need to be asked concerning publication and reception history? |
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Context and intertextuality - the photographic image in relationship to its context |
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What is meant by the context of an image? |
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Photography and words - photographic images in relationship to words |
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Text surrounding an image: paratext, metatext and infratext |
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Historical considerations and media issues |
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New questions |
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Post-photography? - the relationship between analogue and digital photography |
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A new era? |
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A new interpretation of the whole field of photography |
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New questions |
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The idea of photography - the picture in relationship to the ideas on photography |
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Different approaches of the history of visual culture |
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Global categories and stances concerning the ideas on photography |
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The relationship between historically shifting ideas on photography and cultural history in general |
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Photography and other visual media - the relationship between photography and other visual media |
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A soft definition of photography? |
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Defining differences in historic terms |
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