The meaning of representation, denotation and connotation in visual arts has three main meanings representation is representing something of a final copy for example a painting famous person panted and it is copied in a different way for all of society to see. representation was used during a time in history for Emmett tills death. Emmett tills was a 14 year old young african american during the Jim crow laws and segregation, but little did this young boy know a whistle at a white women would lead to his last days on earth, after young emmett whistled that night later he disappeared, he was kidnapped and brutally beaten to death. after they have beat him they dumped him in the Tallahatchie river for no one to find him. family has found him after a short while. his mother was devastated, she was going to do a closed casket funeral but decided not to so the world can see the image she had in her mind and to show the world that torturing innocent people is wrong. I have learned as I have read that every picture has a meaning that is where denotation comes in it is a face value meaning of a sign like a rose as we know it is a flower. Connotation is similar like denotation it is what you see its considered a social, cultural and historical meanings that are added to a signs literal meaning. connotation can be seen in Henry Horace Roland dela portes still life painting he mimics a copy of a scene of a table set up. The elements such as food and drink convey philosophical as well as symbolic meanings, such as a transience of earthly life through the ephemeral materiality of basics.
The myths of photographic truth is using a picture in time to prove the truth of anything that is being processed, Roland Barthes goes on to explain how a photograph is perceived to be an unmediated copy of the real world , its a trace of reality and life its self for example during the holocaust many family member would send pictures of themselves to show that they are still alive for their family to know. Roland Barthes also, goes on to explain that the myths of photographic truth are used at a time of criminal use many pictures that are taken at a scene those pictures are the attorneys evidence that was there at that time and what happened.
Roland Barthes uses the term myths to explain what photographic truth can explain they say a picture says a thousand word well it does as Roland Barthes explains when a photograph is used as evidence anywhere, it is often presented as if it were incontrovertible proof that an event took place in a particular way and in that particular place. Barthes also uses several different terms to explain myths of photographic truth such as studium to describe this truth function of the photograph. The studium also refers to a photographs ability to invoke a distanced appreciation for what the image holds Roland Barthes also goes on to explain all of the new technology today that makes a photograph more photographic truth.
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