Using Roland Barthes explanations of studium and punctum

Using Roland Barthes explanations of studium and punctum find a photograph of your choice and analyze it according to how Barthes defines those terms. Myth of Photographic Truth, from Practices of Looking, reading, page 18.

1) Studium: documentary evidence of something that has happened. (10 points)

2) Punctum: the emotionally piercing quality of a photograph. (10 points)

Write a paragraph explaining how the photograph can be analyzed using Barthes terms, studium and punctum. Describe the studium and punctum of the photograph.

3. Roland Barthes uses the terms denotative and connotative to describe different levels of meaning produced at the same time and for the same viewers of the same photograph. (In an earlier lecture we used these terms to analyze Robert Frank’s Trolley) pp. 19-20. From the reading Myth of Photographic Truth.

The denotative meaning of the photograph refers to the literal, explicit meaning. 

The connotative meanings are informed by the cultural and historical contexts of the image and its viewers’ lives.

Choose one of Andrew Moore’s photographs of Detroit architecture and analyze it using Roland Barthes terms denotative and connotative. This short essay should include a description of the photograph and how it can be analyzed both denotatively (10 points) and connotatively (10 points).

The link below will take you to Moore’s website click on Detroit 2008-2009 to find images. 

4. How does Roland Barthes interpret Semiotics? (From the lecture/reading Images and Ideologies) What is the sign composed of? (5 points)

Below is an example of how we read visual signs. I have used the iPhone as an example of a semiotic sign. All signs signify something. In the PowerPoint I explained that an iPhone could be interpreted as a semiotic sign, not meaning the phone itself, but signifying something about the owner being

technologically advanced.

Explain the meaning of the components of the sign. In this case the iPhone is a symbolic sign.

Give an example of a sign and what the signifier and the signified are. (5 points)

Example:

The iPhone is the sign and the signifier, it signifies technological advancement and possibly wealth and

prestige of the owner. 

5. In class we watched a number of YouTube shorts on synesthesia including a film on Daniel Tammet.

Explain synesthesia as a perceptual phenomenon. What is it? (5 points)

Describe 5 different ways a synesthete (one who experiences synesthesia) experiences the world. (10 points)

If you need to refresh your memory on synesthesia this link will take you to an article on synesthesia that describes different synesthetic experiences.

Everyday fantasia: The world of synesthesia www.apa.org/monitor/mar01/synesthesia.aspx

6. Un Chien Andalou translation: An Andalusian Dog. This film includes some of the most iconic image from film history. Describe in detail the visual aspects of the film. (15 points)

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