The visual anthropologist in the digital library: from filmstrips to salient stills and back to Barthes
Advances in digital image processing lead to ways of representing images and image-collections that approach the linguistic properties of concision and summary. However, important logical differences remain. Indexing is a form of summary representation with problematic application to visual material...
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| description | Advances in digital image processing lead to ways of representing images and image-collections that approach the linguistic properties of concision and summary. However, important logical differences remain. Indexing is a form of summary representation with problematic application to visual material. “Salient stills” and “film strips” as representations of video clips have been suggested as solutions. Yet problems with abstract nonverbal representations return us to the theoretical stance of Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes: images are approached textually. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4b6426ff-1c40-4433-947e-5ee29d2fa3c82022-03-26T15:43:20ZThe visual anthropologist in the digital library: from filmstrips to salient stills and back to BarthesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4b6426ff-1c40-4433-947e-5ee29d2fa3c8AnthropologyOxford University Research Archive - ValetAmerican Anthropological Association2006Zeitlyn, DAdvances in digital image processing lead to ways of representing images and image-collections that approach the linguistic properties of concision and summary. However, important logical differences remain. Indexing is a form of summary representation with problematic application to visual material. “Salient stills” and “film strips” as representations of video clips have been suggested as solutions. Yet problems with abstract nonverbal representations return us to the theoretical stance of Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes: images are approached textually. |
| spellingShingle | Anthropology Zeitlyn, D The visual anthropologist in the digital library: from filmstrips to salient stills and back to Barthes |
| title | The visual anthropologist in the digital library: from filmstrips to salient stills and back to Barthes |
| title_full | The visual anthropologist in the digital library: from filmstrips to salient stills and back to Barthes |
| title_fullStr | The visual anthropologist in the digital library: from filmstrips to salient stills and back to Barthes |
| title_full_unstemmed | The visual anthropologist in the digital library: from filmstrips to salient stills and back to Barthes |
| title_short | The visual anthropologist in the digital library: from filmstrips to salient stills and back to Barthes |
| title_sort | visual anthropologist in the digital library from filmstrips to salient stills and back to barthes |
| topic | Anthropology |
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