Photographs and Context, Terry Berrett

The reading for this week was an interesting one in that it could have used some photographs to better explain the uses of the photograph produced by Robert Doisneau. The article explained how his photograph was construed many different way because of three aspects, internal context, external context and original context. Being a Strategic Communications major I am inclined to agree with Berrett because any message is subject to misunderstanding either intentionally by the sender or unintentional by the environment around the message being communicated. I think in seeing, reading or hearing things we tend to add or own imagination to things. The media for the most part is more aware of that now then ever before and play on that to entertain a individual audience. I really enjoyed the reading but still cant help but put my own story or captions to the examples given regarding the photographs many uses over the years and the misrepresentation of the original context.