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# Practices of Looking ## Chapter 1: Images, Power, and Politics Worksheet #1 **Due Friday: Upload to Moodle** **Instructions:** Give an example of an image that you have responded to emotionally. Describe the image and your reaction. Include the image. Define the following terms: * **mimetic:...

# Practices of Looking ## Chapter 1: Images, Power, and Politics Worksheet #1 **Due Friday: Upload to Moodle** **Instructions:** Give an example of an image that you have responded to emotionally. Describe the image and your reaction. Include the image. Define the following terms: * **mimetic:** mirroring of ideas, almost identically (mirror image) * **anthropomorphic:** when you give human characteristics to an inanimate object * **realism:** style that captures the 'realistic' and everyday lives, authentic. * **empirical:** Knowledge based on observation and/or experiences * **analog:** An idea or data represented by something physical * **ideology:** values & beliefs that exist within society, certain concepts/values are made to exist in society. * **ironic:** Expression and the meaning contradict one another * **Peirce's:** Icon, index, symbol - Icon. Resemblence between object & sign, direct route. Index. 'existensal alliance between meaning and interpretation, same place same time. Symbol: No obvious relation to objects, created through 'unnatural' alliance of object and meaning. **Questions:** * **What is the difference between reflecting meaning and constructing meaning?** Reflecting meaning to represent an ideology within your reasoning. Constructing meaning to let the visual form reflect meaning through reasoning. * **What is the difference between being subjective and being objective?** Subjective is one's personal view, can be clouded. Objective is nothing personal just facts, unbiased. * **What does the textbook mean when it talks about the myth of photographic truth?** Intended or not there is a degree of subjective choices when "programming" camera. Invisible to the user. * **Explain the following statement: "Photographs achieve semantic status as fetish objects and as documents."** We make meaning of the photograph and world through understanding of objects. * **What is the difference between denotative and connotative?** Denotative = represent → Nike Swish Connotative = imply → swish-cool quality * **What does the textbook mean when it says "visual culture is not just a representation of ideologies and power relations but is integral to them"?** Images and visuals are like advertisements for different ideologies. Without one the other could not be 'represented'. Ideologies make up the world of entertainment. * **What is universal meaning versus historical and cultural meaning?** Universal meaning: Something that can continuously be interpreted, disregarding previous assumptions. Historical & cultural meaning: Thinking of the who, what, when, and where? and taking that into consideration when analyzing.