Understanding Image and Visual Media Artifact

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Critically analyzing of visual media artifact investigates visual culture. An analysis entails image interpretation of image equally applicable to genres of photographs as form of advertisement. In this paper, I will critically examine photographs. According to Barrett (2011) he suggested that critic starts with description that involves developing a list of facts concerning the subject matter within the image. Description is a data gathering process of photograph (p. 17). It’s also establishing a typology of the photograph’s content matter. Similarly Bathes’ (1977) suggest that “all images are polysemous” (p. 38) because of the subject matter, hence creation of complexity for visual reader in making decision what aspect to read, pay attention or ignore of the photograph. The paper will discuss the wunderkammer series that contains nine photographs.
Wunderkammers series visually depict elementary school days while grew up of the United States region. The gallery showed titles of work in concert with their subject matter; scouting, space Age and little league. Both scouting and little league photographs contain objects and artifacts which describes United States Baby Boom of that time. Outdoor activities, toy airplanes, pocketknives and snapshots of fishing in conjunction with scouting activities, stamp collections and rock populate the both photographs. They constitute the popular pursuits for many children along America to engage in during the 1950s and 1960s. Such activities and similar others marked the establishment of United States childhood identity.
Wunderkammer space age represented different situation. A good number of United States children of the 1960s were all over the news of though the media to the nation’s race for ...

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...thnography. The images used in this are bringing about the meaning to its audience. The CVM is applied to interpret the images in both ethnographic and auto ethnographic techniques for better understanding. The drawbacks from the methodological design show the importance not only in photography, but also in communication, culture, education and media studies.

References
Barrett, T. (2011). Criticizing photographs: An introduction to understanding images(5thed.). New York: McGraw Hill.

Barthes, R. (1972). Mythologies(A. Lavers, Trans.). New York: Hill and Wang. (Original work published 1957).

Barthes, R. (1977). Image, music, text (S. Heath, Trans.). New York: Hill and Wang. (Original work published in 1964).

Barthes, R. (1980). Camera lucida: Reflections onphotography(R. Howard, Trans.). New York: Hill and Wang. (Original work published in 1980).

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