Pengen nanya dan ngajak diskusi dikit tentang konsep Semiotical Symbolic Photograph. Adakah konsep itu dalam aliran fotografi?

Saya cuma belajar dari jalanan. Nggak ngerti banyak. Buat acuan, ini saya sertakan dasar teori Semiotical Symbolic Photograph tersebut yang nantinya akan saya coba simpulkan makna dari Semiotical Symbolic Photograph tersebut:

S E M I O T I C

The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. (American Heritage Dictionary)

Study of signs and sign-using behaviour, especially in language. In the late 19th and early 20th century the work of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce led to the emergence of semiotics as a method for examining phenomena in different fields, including aesthetics, anthropology, communications, psychology, and semantics. Interest in the structure behind the use of particular signs links semiotics with the methods of structuralism. Saussure's theories are also fundamental to poststructuralism. (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia)

semiotics or semiology, the systematic study of signs, or, more precisely, of the production of meanings from sign‐systems, linguistic or non‐linguistic. As a distinct tradition of inquiry into human communications, semiotics was founded by the American philosopher C. S. Peirce (1839–1914) and separately by the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), who proposed that linguistics would form one part of a more general science of signs: ‘semiology’. Peirce's term ‘semiotics’ is usually preferred in English, although Saussure's principles and concepts—especially the distinctions between signifier and signified and between langue and parole—have been more influential as the basis of structuralism and its approach to literature. Semiotics is concerned not with the relations between signs and things but with the interrelationships between signs themselves, within their structured systems or codes of signification (see paradigm, syntagm). The semiotic approach to literary works stresses the production of literary meanings from shared conventions and codes; but the scope of semiotics goes beyond spoken or written language to other kinds of communicative systems such as cinema, advertising, clothing, gesture, and cuisine. A practitioner of semiotics is a semiotician. The term semiosis is sometimes used to refer to the process of signifying. For a fuller account, consult Terence Hawkes, Structuralism and Semiotics (1977). (Oxford University Press)

S Y M B O L I C

A term used by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and by the literary theorist Julia Kristeva to designate the objective order (sometimes called the Symbolic Order) of language, law, morality, religion, and all social existence, which is held to constitute the identity of any human subject who enters it. Drawing on Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex and on the structuralist anthropology of Claude Lévi‐Strauss, Lacan developed an opposition between the ‘Imaginary’ state enjoyed by the infant who has no distinct sense of a self opposed to the world, and the Symbolic Order in which the child then becomes a separate subject within human culture. The Symbolic is the realm of distinctions and differences—between self and others, subject and object—and of absence or ‘lack’, since in it we are exiled from the completeness of the Imaginary, and can return to it only in fantasized identifications. The infant's entry into the Symbolic is associated with the ‘splitting’ of the subject by language, which allots distinct ‘subject‐positions’ (‘I’ and ‘you’) for us to occupy in turn. In Kristeva's literary theory, the Symbolic is opposed to the disruptive energies of the semiotic, which have their source in the Imaginary state. (Oxford University Press)

P H O T O G R A P H

Halah! Udah pasti banyak yang tau ya! Tapi nggak apa, saya sertain dasar literaturnya...
An image, especially a positive print, recorded by a camera and reproduced on a photosensitive surface. (American Heritage Dictionary)

Dari situ, saya cuma menterjemahkan Semiotical Symbolic Photograph itu sebagai tematikal foto yang mengarahkan pada cerita, yang diwakilkan pada simbol-simbol. Berawal dari sejarah, dari hal-hal antropologis, simbol-simbol itu yang merepresentasikan penggalan perjalanan kisah-kisah kehidupan.

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