The culture of Picture

* Is the picture talking?

In fact, this puzzling question, is it true that the image speak, you thought and you look in the mirror, and see your image in the mirror, try for a moment and you are in front of the mirror to be smiling, and try in another moment to be surly, have you noticed any difference? , In fact, in both cases only the features of the facial muscles and jaws get it change, here we can say that the picture speaks Yes, I mean that's like do not talk humans, but expressing what's inside humans.

Have you tried once to sit for a short moment of time, and you are looking at your photo album, and stopped at a specific image have a significant impact in changing the course of your life, try to take this picture of new, and hopes in this picture, in hopes the place and time that the picture was taken in, and the event or occasion that capture this image has been the hopes, look well on every corner of the picture, and hopes to place well in the background of the picture, and counting backwards in memory to be a time where, in the What do you think now? , You think in the appropriate expressions, or in the description of that moment, or perhaps in the case of a combination of emotion and memory, here to tell you yes the picture speak.

* The culture of Picture

The traditional cultural image has been changing in our time, this change came with the invention of motion pictures, and animation is one of the means of expression in cinema first and then in television, then got the great and sudden change with the emergence of satellite television, the images transmitted via unsupervised cable TV stations, have had a radical change of the written word, which is the spirit of prose literature and culture and the real address, the TV image, which is a new language and a new discourse, this picture is her recipe sudden and surprise and automatic, and extreme speed and force effects visual.

And it can not be to this change in the means of communication, to pass without strong cultural impact and severe intensity similar to the intensity and breadth and power of the image, and the intensity of the change in the way it must be followed by a similar change in intensity the message itself, and even to change the terms of the reception, and from here comes the cultural change through the transformation of literary discourse and prose speech to the picture, and text from one culture to the culture of the picture, and this the effect will change with a strong social impact.

And also used in traditional culture, when we called thought leaders in any nation, and while we were celebrating in these thinkers and determine the degree of influence they have made, today we need to identify the intellectual leaders and sources of influence and enlightenment, and may not be specified in the names of people and may even be a holistic pattern of moving and non-static, and is pleading to the image in order to play in bringing about this change, and perhaps the picture may be the intellectual and cultural leader, in terms of the way you earn additional value and not be the message.

* Culture and change the image of the modern era

The culture of the image is a sign of change in the modern era, and just like that the image is the cause of this change, and for the first time in the history of human cultural and social, we find ourselves unable to see or naming true leaders, they are leading the people and influence them ideologically, politically or technically, and with that we find people are affected and vary in a collective form and timing in one, which means that there are forces driving this change, and which can not be described in the chaotic change, this change are regularly changing and tight and totalitarian, but the most important question is what such a force that that change occur? , Is the picture without the slightest doubt.

But is the image sane thing in itself, and do you have a picture of planning and thinking ability? , This question will be found in the search for the change in the reception mechanisms, then the mechanisms of interpretation and interpretation, and cross these two processes are bringing about change in human terms of vision and understanding.

* Photo and cultural criticism

Today cultural criticism has done in taking care of the culture of the image and the concept of the so-called idiomatically (visual culture), and was inserted and added classes in universities, studying the material and visual culture that it is the culture of the picture, here began the great cultural transformation process, and is the transformation of the culture of elite culture to the masses.

And when taking into consideration the concept of image in it a tool of expression, we will fall into a big trap, he's sincere and true on the one hand, on the one hand and another's false and fabricated, and the adage the famous "Who has heard of like not see", and say this gives the Visual sense influence more powerful than hearing, and over the centuries adopted human culture to believe everything what the eye sees, and this the image in which the man can distinguish between real tree planted in the ground, and between the light reflected on the surface of the water the tree, then the distinction between the image and the image under, and the distinction between truth and fiction, and between illusion and a mirage, then entered the colors to the image, and the relationship has evolved between the sense of sight and colors and images, but after that came the cinema took the picture after the largest, where it became image image actually speak and move, this major shift in the culture of the picture, who is making the image superior to the written word, as in the case of writing remain words on deaf pages and no movement where, and if the writing is a graphics or images the words of a blog, but the portability into these words be only to the reader, and the reader here is the one who determines the fate of those words in terms of pronunciation and significance and interpretation.

24\12\2015

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