Reading "Rhetoric of the Image"

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

1.     Discussion of Roland Barthes’s “Rhetoric of the Image”.

2.     Examining “the three messages” in an image

3.     Examining the interrelationship of image and text.

 

For next class:

1. Read “Images, Power and Politics”, pp. 37-48 (from “Images and Ideology” to the end), and identify key theories and concepts: ideology, portraiture, icon.

2. Examine development of photography from the 19^th century to the present day, as well as its the social and cultural role.

3. Select two image icons and discuss the historical and social context from which they emerged and gained meaning.

4. Informed by Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, examine the treatment of motherhood in painting and photography.