Visual Culture Test Notes

📋 Course Outline

1. Pose and Portrait Photography
2. Family Photography and Familyness
3. Disinterestedness and Viewer Participation
4. Jauss and Aesthetic Experience
5. Culturalism and Post-Colonialism
6. Hybridity, Mimicry and Third Space
7. San Rock Art and Spirituality
8. Street Art and Urban Intervention
9. Vhils and José Parlá

📖 1. Pose and Portrait Photography

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Pose : The bodily process through which people orient themselves toward the camera and transform themselves in advance into an image.

📝 Essential Points

★ Must-know

📌 Barthes distinguishes the motionless, objectified photographic image from the light, divided and dispersed self, arguing that “myself” never completely overlaps with “my image.”

• According to Barthes, formal portrait photography presents four simultaneous versions of a person:
  • the person they think they are
  • the person they want others to think they are
  • the person the photographer thinks they are
  • and the person the photographer uses to exhibit artistic skill

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