In: Psychology
What is seeing? This week, discussing the basics of visual processing, how images have been received at various points in history, and how images are inseparable from the culture(s) in which they are produced. In the essay posting, answer this question: do images show the truth? What is in an image? Why or why not? Draw on the readings to support your position. This week, discussing the basics of visual processing, how images have been received at various points in history, and how images are inseparable from the culture(s) in which they are produced. In the essay posting, answer this question: do images show the truth? What is in an image? Why or why not? Draw on the readings to support your position. Read: - Eric R. Kandel, The Brain’s Processing of Visual Images, Deconstruction of the Visual Image: The Building Blocks of Form Perception, and Reconstruction of the World We See from The Age of Insight - Georgina Kleege, Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account, Journal of Visual Culture
History was for quite a long time depicted through at works, especially through images this images are the true representation of a given culture. The field of archeological this comes into the picture in order to present history as it was. Texts at times, might distort truth but an image has the ability to present the past to the future generation as it was. In order to view and appreciate an image, one should look beyond the physical appearance of the people and environment in the images by looking for the emotions and the background of the images one witnesses. The dress, the physical proximity, facial expression the surroundings all matters as they directly connected to the culture. Although not all the images present reality, those that were taken without the knowledge of those present in the image projects reality. Today, people prepare for images and beautify the images thus not presenting reality as it is.