Denotations/Connotations
The idea we dealt with at first was denoting and connoting an image. Looking at the literal then find the deeper meanings of an image. The example we used to denote and connote was the first ever image taken of a hippo by Juan Carlos María Isidro de Borbón in Regents Park in 1852.
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CONNOTATION
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Studium/Punctum
We then explored the concept Roland Barthes explored in his book Camera Lucida, about an image having a Studium, which is a mixture of denotations and connotations, it is what we can know about the photo based on existing knowledge of historical and social context. We then looked at the other idea he explored, which was about a some images having a Punctum, something which pierces us, the viewer, personally. Not all images will have a punctum, only ones which give one to the viewer personally. We looked into these ideas whilst viewing William Klien's photo of a street in Little Italy, taken in 1954. We used this photo as Barthes himself talks about it in Camera Lucida.
STUDIUM
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PUNCTUM
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