Researching the Visual (book)

Researching the Visual Images, Objects, Contexts and Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry
Michael Emmison and Philip Smith
Sage Publications London 2000


"the primary issue is the interpretation of the photograph and its place in a system of cultural representation."
page 46

"Hall argues we should decode images in terms of connotation and denotation."
page 46
(Stuart Hall)

"Hall suggests that in determining which connotation is valid we have to draw upon our stock of common sense knowledge in order to make a reading of the image in terms of its expressive content."
page 47

"Selection and framing decisions made by photographers and editors are ignored... and no we tend to read such photographs as a truthful document of what really happened, ignoring the possibility of other interpretations of the event."
page 48
(... section = mentions a photo within the book, wont be in my essay)