Practices of looking: Images, Power, Politics Reading Notes

• Treachery of Images
• Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe
• art is only representation
• "Black-boxed"
• "Photographic truth"- unmediated copy of the real world
• photographs can hold more than truth/real world
• practices of looking are intimately tied to ideology
• different portraits evoke different emotions or messages
• mug shots
• mother and child (Migrant Mother, Mary and Jesus, Madonna)
• womanhood in general (Marilyn Monroe)

"Semiotics"- use to interpret symbols to ideologies