237.130: World Views
Discuss how a visual text can be constructed and read differently considering ‘world view’, ‘ideology’, and ‘the myth of photographic truth’.
All individuals are a sensory product; we are the subtotal of what we see, hear, taste, smell, and touch. Today’s image based culture dictates that sight is the predominant sense, and from these images, individuals construct their beliefs via the broadcasted ideologies (Sturken and Cartwright 23). However, imagery is not the sole contributor to our identity; we are developed by what social and ethnic backgrounds we come from, and the prejudices these groups exhibit or are subjected to.
Reflection:
With the variation of interpretations, in the works I produce, ideologies I convey are likely to not what the audience interprets. Considering this, should I assemble the underlying messages to be notably explicit? To do this, I may be diminishing the metaphorical depth of my creation. Although, the beauty of art occurs when the audience views ones work and devises their own interpretation.
I must also contemplate that the future tasks of analysing visual texts, my interpretations from the analysis of the given text will not be what others perceive.
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Bibliography:
Sturken, Marita, and Lisa Cartwright. “Images, Power and Politics”. Practices of Looking: An Introduction To Visual Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 9-48. Print.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “The Changing World”. How to see the World.