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Introduction
Art history in the United States has been characterized by a strong value on concrete data and conclusions and a corresponding suspicion of attempts to deduce intangibles according to Christine Hasemueller . There are parallels in the structure and the tangible works in art history.
Definitions
The terms that are used in this paper are a little confusing to most artisans but the concepts are truly recognizable to the artist. In an attempt to provide level playing field definitions of the three prominent terms will be examined before proceeding in this exciting topic.
Iconography
Iconography is generally viewed as religious art as it represents images of the interpretation of content images. The following image is an example of the iconography in photography. Figure 1 religious iconography
The icons in photography are a style more than a religious item. There is nothing but historicism as the lofty ideas are an imitation of the beliefs of the artist . The iconic images are many times singular images as the eye of the photographer to present the religiosity of the image.
Semantic photography
Semantic photography is an interpretation of the meaning of an idea through a photograph or a visual image .
Figure 2 Chinatown 2012 Collection Photo
Photos are often a means to remember personal events and family album pictures. Semantic photography is interesting in that the photo album pictures can be used to leverage the photos to tell another story. For example, using these pictures in a travel guide as the one displayed can be. It is a vacation photo that tells a story in another context .
Structuralism
Structuralism in photography explores the concept that surface appearances could not be trusted. Structuralisms have said the "In the arts people were discarding the idea that photographs were direct pictures of the world by replacing it with the concept that photography had its own morphology that intervened between reality and the viewer" said Newton. Structuralisms think that the meaning of something comes from seeing how one sign relates to another.
Figure 3 Orphanage in Amsterdam
This photo shows the structural photography and its influence on the structural photography arrangement of building details. It is useful for both the building details that are defined in the aerial photography but also for the aesthetics of the photo.
Roland Barthes is a French author and philosopher and was able to put these three elements of photography together in his writings and talks. His love of photography influenced his writings as exemplified in his writing of Camera Lucida in 1977. The photograph of his mother as a child served as the inspiration of the work. The work was personally symbolic to him. As he tried to convey this emotion to others he was not successful. Ronald was troubled by the idea that others did not understand the symbolism in the illusion in the photo. Her childhood photo was a representation of what was in the past. It is not a representation of what is. In this way the photo contains the philosophy of the ever changing world and that things are never as they seem. The photo is highly emotional to Bartles and feelings pour forth each time that he looks at it. These feelings are not felt by the people looking at the photo. In this case as in most photography, the effects of the photo on the spectator are different from the emotions felt by the photographer. Most photographers experience this emotional connection to the photos that they produce as an emotional bond is often a part of the photo and may or may not be shared by the spectator.
Photography and Realism
Warzone photography is one of the most realistic type of photography as it completely depicts the
