Homework April 12 Comic response

Ted Pioli

Writing and photography

 april 12^th

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.