"Images, Power and Politics"

8 Outubro 2020, 14:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

1.     Discussion of central aspects in the chapter “Images, Power and Politics”: relationships of power and (un)ethical photographic practice, representation, visuality and countervisuality, the myth of photographic truth.

1.     Analysis of images that illustrate the theories presented in the chapter.

For next class: 

1.     Read the chapter “Images, Power and Politics”, pp. 29-37(from “Myth, Connotation and the Meaning of Images” to “Images and Ideology”), and identify key theories and concepts: connotation, denotation, myth, semiotics, structuralism, sign.

2.     Bring an image to class through which to illustrate the use of semiotic analysis.