Coded message/ flag (from the title), coded iconic message/ anarchist flag, message without a code?/ pear with dead leaf attached "that might have been".
Problem: If the literal meaning of the photograph must now automatically carry the qualifier "that might have been" then can the category of "message without a code" still be usefully applied to the photograph?
Most of us now see the photograph for what it is, a thoroughly coded message. One "simple" fact remains however, by definition every photograph is an index of something!
Anarchist pear?
ReplyDeleteExactly - a pear of anarchists.
ReplyDeleteThreefold sign: ikon/flag, symbol/anarchism, index/pear.
ReplyDeleteNice! It gets a little more complicated though when you consider the "message without a code".
ReplyDeleteComplicated pear....
ReplyDeleteCoded message/ flag (from the title), coded iconic message/ anarchist flag, message without a code?/ pear with dead leaf attached "that might have been".
Problem: If the literal meaning of the photograph must now automatically carry the qualifier "that might have been" then can the category of "message without a code" still be usefully applied to the photograph?
Most of us now see the photograph for what it is, a thoroughly coded message. One "simple" fact remains however, by definition every photograph is an index of something!