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Experiencing Photographs Qua Photographs: What's So Special About Them?, Jiri Benovsky
Experiencing Photographs Qua Photographs: What's So Special About Them?, Jiri Benovsky
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
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Allowing The Accidental; The Interplay Between Intentionality And Realism In Photographic Art, Katrina Mitcheson
Allowing The Accidental; The Interplay Between Intentionality And Realism In Photographic Art, Katrina Mitcheson
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
We experience photographs both as intentional and as prone to the accidental. The photograph is both capable of being an artwork with its own, constructed world and of drawing our attention to the reality of the objects used in creating it. In this article I employ the insights contained in the concepts of Barthes’ studium and punctum in order to explore how the artist’s intentions and the realism of photography interact aesthetically. I advance the idea that a unique aesthetics of photography can be rooted in the tension between the intentional, culturally coded message of a photograph and the emanation …
Othering The Other: The Spectacle Of Katrina For Our Racial Entertainment Pleasure, Mariana Ortega
Othering The Other: The Spectacle Of Katrina For Our Racial Entertainment Pleasure, Mariana Ortega
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The following essay examines visual representations of hurricane Katrina in popular media in order to show how photography continues to be enlisted in the production of the racial spectacle, the transformation of the plight of people of color into entertainment. The essay also analyzes how such a use of the visual serves to solidify the understanding of people of color by way of a black-white binary that does not do justice to current U.S. demographics. The essay provides a glimpse into the intertwining between the visual and racial thinking.