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Practices of looking Practices of looking Introduction to practices of looking Discuss theories of representation Discuss the myth of the photographic truth (see sample response paper) Discuss facets of ideology

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Practices of looking

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Practices of looking

Introduction to practices of looking
Discuss theories of “representation”
Discuss facets of “ideology”
Discuss the myth of the photographic truth

(see sample response paper)

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Practices of looking

To look is an act of choice where we negotiate social relationships and meanings. Looking is a practice much like speaking, writing, or signing. To engage in the exchange of looks, to see and be seen, entails the play of power.

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Theories of representation

“Representation refers to the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us” (p. 12) Language and systems of representation do not reflect an already existing reality as much as they organize, construct, and mediate

ur understanding or reality, emotion, and imagination

“The world is not simply reflected back to us through representations that stand in for things by copying their appearance. We construct the meaning of things through the process of representation.” (p. 12)

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Henri-Horace Roland De La Porte Still Life c.1765 Marion Peck, Still Life with Dralas, 2003

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deconstructing systems of representation

R. Magritte, The Treachery of Images 1928-29
M. Tansey, The Innocent Eye 1981

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The myth of photographic truth

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No matter what social role an image plays, “the creation of an image through a camera lens always involves some degree of subjective choice through selection, framing, and personalization.” (p. 16)

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All camera-generated images. . . bear the cultural legacy of still photography, which historically has been regarded as a more

bjective practice then paining or drawing. The is combination
f the subjective and the objective is a central tension in camera

generated images.” (p. 17)

Nikki S Lee The Hispanic Project (25), 1998 Nikki S Lee - Hip Hop Project #36, 2002

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Images and Ideology

Ideology is “the broad but indispensable, shared set of values and beliefs through which individuals live out their complex relations to a range of social networks” (p. 23).

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“Ideology is manifested in widely shared social assumptions about the not only the way things are but also about the way things should

be. Images and media representations are some of the forms through

which we engage or enlist others to share certain views or not” (p. 23).

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“Ideology is the means that by which certain values, such as individual freedom, progress, and the importance of home, are made to seem like natural, inevitable aspects of everyday life” (p. 23)

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“Practices of looking are intimately tied to ideology. . . The most important aspect of ideologies in the modernist period was that they appeared to be natural or given, rather than part of a system of belief that a culture produces in order to function in a particular way” (p. 23).

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http://www.thedailynarrative.com/2014/10/19/media-coverage-of- pumpkin-festival-riots-vs-ferguson-video/.html

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Practices of looking

Practices of looking

(see sample response paper)

Practices of looking

To look is an act of choice where we negotiate social relationships and meanings. Looking is a practice much like speaking, writing, or signing. To engage in the exchange of looks, to see and be seen, entails the play of power.

Theories of representation

“Representation refers to the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us” (p. 12) Language and systems of representation do not reflect an already existing reality as much as they organize, construct, and mediate

“The world is not simply reflected back to us through representations that stand in for things by copying their appearance. We construct the meaning of things through the process of representation.” (p. 12)

deconstructing systems of representation

The myth of photographic truth

No matter what social role an image plays, “the creation of an image through a camera lens always involves some degree of subjective choice through selection, framing, and personalization.” (p. 16)

All camera-generated images. . . bear the cultural legacy of still photography, which historically has been regarded as a more

generated images.” (p. 17)

Images and Ideology

Ideology is “the broad but indispensable, shared set of values and beliefs through which individuals live out their complex relations to a range of social networks” (p. 23).

“Ideology is manifested in widely shared social assumptions about the not only the way things are but also about the way things should

which we engage or enlist others to share certain views or not” (p. 23).

“Ideology is the means that by which certain values, such as individual freedom, progress, and the importance of home, are made to seem like natural, inevitable aspects of everyday life” (p. 23)

“Practices of looking are intimately tied to ideology. . . The most important aspect of ideologies in the modernist period was that they appeared to be natural or given, rather than part of a system of belief that a culture produces in order to function in a particular way” (p. 23).

“what can be created of what we have been conditioned to be”? (Pinar et al., 1996)