Topic: Visual Culture and Ideology Reflection
According to John Berger, visual culture forms part of a larger “way of seeing” that structures our interaction with the world around us; that is, visual culture shapes the ways we know ourselves and our position within the larger world.
What are the principle visual images that you encounter? For images here thing of things that are representations (movies, photos, paintings, computer graphics etc).
Start to notice and catalog, in your daily life, what is the main source of images that you encounter?
What is the category of images that you most interact with? How do you interact with these images –for instance, is it photographs that you see on Instagram? That you hold in your hand and have a close connection to?
Or is it film, something you sit back and “consume” at a remove? Or something else entirely? How would you describe your interaction with images?
