Glossary

Key Terms and Definitions

As you work through the course materials it will be beneficial to develop your own glossary on your blog. This will consist of key terms with their definitions. As you work through the unit, you will be able to build your list of terms. You can also add quotes or different voices or definitions into the glossary for each entry. Different theorists and practitioners may use the terms with different or subtle nuanced meaning which you can acknowledge in your glossary. All of this will help your own writing and critical analysis as you develop.

GENRES

• Genres are types of painting. These were codified in the seventeenth century as (in descending order of importance) history, portrait, genre (scenes of everyday life), landscape and still life

Hyperbole

• extravagant exaggeration

Rhetoric

• The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

Trope 

• A figurative or metaphorical use of an image, word or expression.
• A significant or recurrent theme; a motif.

Photo-Secession

• Led by Alfred Stieglitz, it was the first influential group of photographers that worked to have photography accepted as fine art.

Structuralism

Semiotics

Photography Codes

Denotation and Connotation

Reality and realism

Poststructuralism

Limit – telephotography 

• Photographing landscapes that cannot be seen with the unaided eye

Mnemonic Device

• aiding or meant to aid one’s memory
• of or relating to memory or mnemonics

Pixtorialism

• Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
• emphasis on purely photographic or scenic qualities for its own sake, sometimes with a static or lifeless effect:

Sublime

• elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
• impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.: Switzerland has sublime scenery.
• supreme or outstanding:

Anthropocene

• noting or pertaining to a proposed epoch of the Quarternary Period, occurring in the present time, since mid-20th century, when human activity began to effect significant environmental consequences, specifically on ecosystems and climate.

Numen

• divine power or spirit; a deity, especially one presiding locally or believed to inhabit a particular object.

Numunous

• of, relating to, or like a numen; spiritual or supernatural.
• surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious: that element in artistic expression that remains numinous.
• arousing one’s elevated feelings of duty, honor, loyalty, etc.: a benevolent and numinous paternity.

Geomorphology

• The study of characteristics, origin and development of landforms

Sublime Vacancy

• Large open vast areas with no people or cities

Place Identity 

• Defined by Proshansky and colleagues (Proshansky, Fabian, & Kaminoff, 1983), place identity, is one of the main constructs focusing on the relationship between people and places. Other relevant concepts are restorativeness (Herzog, Maguire & Nebel, 2003), and the role of nature in the person-environment interaction (Kaplan, 1995). Place-identity and restorativeness (which is taken to include landscape preferences) are two psychological constructs that explain people-environment interactions in two different ways, or “paradigms”. While place-identity stresses place and its meaning, then, as Stanley Milgram (Milgram, 1970) points out, restorativeness focuses on “overloads” of living experiences in cities.

Vernacular Photography

• An umbrella term used to distinguish fine art photographs from those made by non-artists for a huge range of purposes, including commercial, scientific, forensic, governmental, and personal.
• Snapshots capturing everyday life and subjects are a major form of vernacular photography.

• A Rhizome (botanical origin), unlike trees or their roots, connects any point to any other point, and its traits are not necessarily linked to traits of the same nature. Rhizomatic is a philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuzeand Félix Guattari, used to describe theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.