Foto tähendusmehhanismid: "Mullatoidu restorani" juhtum
“Dining with worms” by Peeter Laurits / Ain Mäeots: the mechanisms of meaning

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the mechanisms of meaning of photography through the case study of the exhibition of staged photos “Dining with Worms” (subtitled “Frozen and sliced theatre”) by Laurits / Mäeots. The aim of the paper is to study the meaning production mechanisms of photographic text as a complex of codes (according to Victor Burgin 1982). In order to access the meaning-mechanisms we look at the work from semiotic perspective (“text in text” construction), mixing it with other disciplines such as culturology (using the works of Juri Lotman and Johan Huizinga), studies of ideology in photography (Victor Burgin) and visual syntax (Gunter Kress and Theo van Leeuwen). The aim of this approach is to reach different levels of the mechanisms of meaning, having in mind recent developments in visual culture studies.

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