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May 8, 2009
I've always puzzled over the idea of 'thinking images'. It suggests an image that goes beyond poetics and style to become a thinking work. What is a thinking image or photograph? Is it a going beyond poetics and style to become a thinking work.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, grid, Adelaide CBD, 2009
The Thinking Pictures issue of Image and Narrative explores this puzzle of pictures that think. Is it one that suggests a possibility of alternative meanings and interpretations? Is it slapping a title on the image to open up the different interpretations by critics?
I can get the idea that an image shows two faces---a construction site that is also a ruin. That takes us to possiblities of the idea of dialectical image that can be found in the writings of Walter Benjamin and Theodore Adorno. I've always been puzzled by that. Anthony Auerbach explores this in Imagine no Metaphors: the Dialectical Image of Walter Benjamin
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