The presentation is for a history/theory class that requires a 15-minute PowerPoint and discussion on the reading in my own words, although citation is allowed when needed.

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Please make a 9-slide PowerPoint presentation, with 100 speaker notes for each slide. Use at least 3 other scholarly sources.

The presentation is for a history/theory class that requires a 15-minute PowerPoint and discussion on the reading in my own words, although citation is allowed when needed. I just need to talk about what the reading was about, if I agree with what is being said, my own interpretation, thoughts, and possibly other images by the photographers; to help understand their vision of the text / hidden codes that images have. It’s a pretty good reading.

How to read a photograph by Graham Clark:com/graham-clarke.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>https://www.photopedagogy.com/graham-clarke.html

Comments from the teacher:

“1. There should be an introduction

My understanding of the reading

2. Focus on the 3 Photographers.

Main Point I:

– Diane Arbus – Identical Twins, 1967

Add only that photo so it’s visual when I talk about it and specific points.

Main Point II:

– Matthew Brady – Matthew Brady Standing by Tree, 1865

Add that photo and a breakdown of the decoding of the image.

Main Point III:

– Lee Freidlander – Route 9W New York , 1969

The slide should provide an Introduction – a breakdown of the reading.

Who is Graham Clarke?

Graham Clarke is a Reader in Literary and Image Studies, at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

This chapter is mainly about Clarke reading a selection of images. ‘How do WE read a photograph?”

Clarke looks into every single part of a photograph to create his interpretation of the reading,

Clarke begins to talk about how looking at a photograph is quite similar to looking at a text, this then leads him on to reading in a semiotic way, the language of signs. Visual communications.

Graham looks into every single part of a photograph to create his interpretation, of how to read a photograph.

Examples I saw online for this specific reading :

These are the key points that I gained from this reading.

– Complexity of the relationship between the viewer of the photograph gives way to various interpretations

– We read photographs like text: they are full of codes

– The photograph achieves meaning through what has been called a Photograph discourse: a language of codes that involves its own grammar and syntax

– Victor Burgin: Photographs have a complex intertextuality

– Photographs contain messages which mean different things to different viewers-

– It is a product of the photographer

– Every photograph has a deeper and wider subject than what first meets the eye, whether that be in context within a future, history, or, personal beliefs

– Not the real world – just an interpretation or a mirror

Summary / Conclusion

Feelings… thoughts…

A photograph’s story is shaped by the person viewing the photograph. We read images from the perspective of our worldviews and values; people are all too different to read images the same way.

Although a photograph has an intention and provoked a reaction, we will always interpret it differently, especially if there is no written literacy. Photographs provide insights but only if the visual rhetoric.

Some photographs aren’t meant to be more than simply an image that will remind us of what we saw and what we experienced. Even the most representative photograph is a version of reality interpreted by the photographer.

Your approach to reading a photograph can change, depending on the purpose or use of the photograph. Intertextuality operates through the eye of the beholder

You can read it one way and then when you revisit it, you can read it another way or have another interpretation.

The story the photographer is telling or has to decide to feed us, even if they are not cognizant of the inherent bias that led us to make the change. Even then most of the story is actually conjured up by the viewer’s interpretation.

To interpret you to need to decode it. The picture represents pieces of reality. Often the story is actually conjured up by the viewers

Diane Arbus – photographed social exclusion people

Matthew Brady – photojournalist. He didn’t often take the photos. Could not take action shots and was known to coordinate the scene he would have photographed. He moves design bodies to fit the frame. This is going back to the civil war. He had a story to tell and sometimes the camera can frame just enough so he had to organize it. There are a lot of interesting facts about him. He lost many of his “staff”. In fact, one beat him to sell the images of the war. He probably was the first one to take a selfie!

Lee Friedlander: famous for taking photographs of urban social landscapes. His style is a specific point of view of documentation.

Another one that took “selfies” and made a career out of it.”