Ted Pioli
Writing and photography
april 12th
Write
a short, 1-2 paragraph response in which you consider how this essay relates to
the discussion we started in class regarding "the language of
photography" -- i.e. how photos and writing intersect.
This
was an interesting essay; it called into question the balance between
photographs and writing. Based on the essay it talks about how writing is more
literal and pictures are more vague. For example when the character said this
is a pipe, do it’s a drawing of a pipe, and so on…” what the narrator is trying
to say is that we should be more skeptical of images, or at least not take them
so seriously the first time we see them. We are a visual species and society,
most people believe what they see over what they hear or read, which is
interesting seeing how images are more easily tarnished and deceiving than
anything else.
I
doubt the author had the Photoshop version that are out today, but what he/she
is saying is relevant today, images are probably the farthest from reality,
even when visually they are attempting to depict it. It is also important to
recognize that writing and pictures go hand in hand. Writing goes with pictures
better than it does sound or other writing it can enhance an image or completely
change it’s meaning, writing alters
images and vice versa.
