The Awakened Mind of a Village Girl

"I see the light, well...sometimes"

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Location: Versailles, Illinois, United States

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

You got all that from a picture?

Geez, I was lost by the second sentence in Barthes essay. I could not believe that the Panzani advertisement held so much meaning. I did get a few thoughts out of the article:

-There are various messages located within an image.

- The intrepretation of an image relies heavily on your culture. I would like to add that I think gender, knowledge, and financial status also contribute? Anyone agree?

- What is a non-coded iconic message?

- I really liked the denoted and connoted explanation. My understanding of this was "here is what you see" and "here is what you feel"

-Linguistic messages are abundant within our civilization. But haven't you ever seen a picture that spoke louder than any words could possibly hope to?

-Does a linguistic message present on an image lead a viewer to a different interpretation of the image?

-I have never thought of photographs in the way Barthes article does.

-What does all of this mean for computers and writing??

I am glad that I have gotten the article out of the way. I felt bad that I did not read it when I was supposed to. Not being a campus student really has it's downside sometimes. I hope that the complexity of the article will still allow us to have a decent class discussion. Ta-Ta.

1 Comments:

Blogger cbd said...

I almost handed out the article Wednesday. I regret not doing so. But we didn't think we'd see Madelyn this soon.

I hope you'll bring this stuff up in class today. I've always liked this article and would enjoy discussing it with y'all.

The last question requires some speculation: feel free to take a stab at it!

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