As part of researching the photography of signs for my Assignment 5, I came across the book, Jail Keys Made Here (Boltin, 1959) The book is not art, it not trying to say anything other than highlight some of the signs the photographer, Lee Boltin, has come across in his travels across America and that he […]
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Research: Rhetoric of the image – anchorage and relay
Learning from reading paper I read Barthes’ Rhetoric of the Image (Barthes, 1964) in which he uses the image of an advertisement for Italian food ingredients, but used within France, to illustrate his concepts (see Fig 1.) The overarching thrust of his paper (which is written in his usual style and means that it takes […]