Physical image and mental quality: photography as viewed by semiotics

Authors

  • Jorge Barros Pires Petrobrás
  • Miguel Luiz Contani Universidade Estadual de Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2005v1n1p167

Keywords:

Sign, cognition, photographic image, semiotics.

Abstract

The nature of the photographic image is discussed here, by considering the ways in which it represents aspects of reality within the phenomenological fundaments of the notion of sign. The purpose is to help build theoretical and methodological tools for analyses and improvement of perception on the cognitive influence of the photographic image. The pictures analyzed in this study have been supplied by Projeto Cognitus – Petrobrás.

Author Biographies

Jorge Barros Pires, Petrobrás

Mestre em Filosofia pela UNESP de Marília (SP). Pesquisador do projeto Cognitus/Petrobrás.

Miguel Luiz Contani, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Doutor em Comunicação e Semiótica pela PUC/SP. Docente do Curso de Especialização em Fotografia da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

Published

2005-07-15

How to Cite

Pires, J. B., & Contani, M. L. (2005). Physical image and mental quality: photography as viewed by semiotics. Discursos Fotograficos, 1(1), 167–182. https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2005v1n1p167

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