Why is text so important to the
image? Does it give us added information that we don’t get just from the image?
Does it Show things that we cannot see? Or does it distract us from working out
the image ourselves?
In Barthes ‘Image,Music Text’, he
tells us that...
“Naturally, even from the perspective
of a purely immanent analysis, the structure of the photograph is not an
isolated structure; it is in communication with at least one other structure,
namelt the text – title, caption or article.” Page 16
Here he is mainly talking about
press photography or work in a newspaper but this also responds to artistic
photography.
He then goes on to talk about
‘connotation procedures’ which is the imposition of second meaning in the
photographic message. It is realised that there are different levels of
production of the photograph, for example, choice, different treatment, framing
layout.
He then talks about the connection
between ‘Text and image.’
This speaks about how text is
designed to ‘quicken’ our understanding of the image, the words help the image.
Barthes, R., & Heath, S. (1977). Image, music, text. New York, Hill and Wang. P 15, 16, 20, 25
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