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The visual anthropologist in the digital library: From filmstrips to Salient stills and back to Barthes

Abstract:
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. © 2006 by the American Anthropological Association.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1525/var.2006.22.1.3

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Sub department:
Social & Cultural Anthropology
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Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons
Journal:
Visual Anthropology Review More from this journal
Volume:
22
Issue:
1
Pages:
3-13
Publication date:
2006-01-01
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EISSN:
1548-7458
ISSN:
1058-7187


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2013-11-17

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