Visual Culture Test Notes

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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

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📌 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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1. What does pose mean in portrait photography in the sense described by the material?

2. In Barthes’s distinction, what contrasts with the motionless, objectified photographic image?

3. How many simultaneous versions of a person does formal portrait photography present, according to Barthes?

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What is pose in photography?

The bodily process of orienting oneself toward the camera to become an image.

What does Barthes distinguish in photographic images?

The motionless, objectified image from the light, divided self.

According to Barthes, how many versions of a person does formal portrait photography present?

Four simultaneous versions of a person.

Name one version of a person presented in formal portrait photography according to Barthes.

The person they think they are.

Name another version of a person presented in formal portrait photography according to Barthes.

The person they want others to think they are.

Name a third version of a person presented in formal portrait photography according to Barthes.

The person the photographer thinks they are.

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