Question One:

“The photojournalist ‘snap’ has an authority which other forms of picture-making lack; it presents itself as factual evidence of an actual state of affairs…however, the photograph is a sign… a complex of signs used to communicate a message”. Victor Burgin, Art, Commonsense  and Photography, p.3.

Using Burgin’s arguments in this chapter (available in your vUWS file under Supplementary Readings) as your basis, analyse the image.

Question Two:

Using  the structuralist methods of analysis described by Saussure, Peirce and Barthes  - especially  those of ‘denotation’,  ‘connotation’ as well as  the ‘signifier’ and ‘signified’, analyse this image

Question Three: 

Compare and contrast the two images

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