Photography's False Impression of Objectivity

Panzani Advertisement from Barthes’s Rhetoric of the Image.

Stuff to think about via Barthes’s Rhetoric of the Image:

  Linguistic message within image;

    Denoted; What text is there?
    Connoted; What symbolism is there?

  Accompanied linguistic messages;

    Anchor; What am I looking at?
    Relay; What should I think when I see this?

  Literal messages;

    Representations of specific things.

  Symbolic messages;

    Cultural implications of specific objects represented.
    Cultural implications of juxtapositions. (symbolic color, cuisine, actions)
    Cultural implications of image classifications. (still life)

 Denoted message;

    Does the photograph exist as a trace of, or an equivalent of truth?
    Is the photograph always a lie?
    Can both of these ideas co-exist?

Connoted message;

    (We want to eat this)


Disclaimer; This is a mash-up of my notes from this essay and may not reflect the author's intent.

   

Marcel Duchamp interview on Art and Dada (1956)

This 1956 interview features the artist talking with James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the Guggenheim Museum.

”She – A Cathedral”

TY to David for this;

https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/remembering-she-a-cathedral/

Library Guide

http://guides.lib.lawrence.edu/art240

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Learning Garageband

This guy has alotta videos on a very easy to follow, basic level.

Found this helpful myself as mastering isn't so straightforward as it once was.

The volume automation has become pretty hidden too, and for me this is the most important tool in digital recording.

Learning Premiere

This is the story of Douglas Engelbart

Trailer For a new documentary.

Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013), whose vision of collaboration using computer technology to help solve the urgent and complex problems of all of humanity, died on July 2, 2013. His comrades believed that his ideas were never fully realized due to his ideals and generosity of spirit. For example, he resisted patenting the "mouse" he'd invented and it eventually fell into the public domain. The robotic rigidity of institutions is also to blame -- most powerful technology companies in American relegated him to R&D. Ted Nelson, professor and inventor of the first hypertext project, delivered Engelbart's eulogy on December 9, 2013. In his tearful delivery, he said the "...real ashes to be mourned are the ashes of Doug’s great dreams and vision, that we dance around in the costume party of fonts that swept aside his ideas of structure and collaboration...Perhaps his notion of accelerating collaboration and cooperation was a pipe dream in this dirty world of organizational politics, jockeying and backstabbing and euphemizing evil." Engelbart articulated his ideas for collaboration publicly in what is known as The Mother of all Demos delivered on December 9, 1968, nearly half a century ago. Some of what he described is still in the process of being realized in commercial forms such as Skype, Google Docs, and more.