Assertion: photograph | /r/HasProperty | representational
Facets:
value: without editing
type: MANNER
value: through representational casting
type: MANNER
value: on own
type: MANNER
value: by definition
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In this essay, I will argue against Scruton’s argument that photographs are by definition non-representational by proposing that the subject captured in a photograph portrays the artist’s intention, which is separate from the objects depicted in the photograph.
text: Thus, contrary to Scruton’s argument, the photograph would actually be representational.
text: In “Transparent Representation: Photography and the Art of Casting,” Peter Alward argues that not only can photographs be representational but that their status as representations does not necessarily undermine photographic transparency.
text: This method of identification arguably would cause the photograph to be fiction or representational.
text: Alward concludes that through representational casting, a photograph can be representational.
text: Although philosophers like Lopes have taken issue with Scruton’s aesthetic interest in photography, few have tried to assert that a photograph can be representational on its own without editing.
text: Rather, to undermine Scruton’s essay, one would have to prove that photographs could be representational.
text: If photographs can be representational, then one could argue they would be aesthetically interesting as representational art.
text: For a photograph to be representational, Scruton’s concept that the subject of the photograph is the same object has to be contradicted since he believes that the causal relation between the photograph and the subject prevent the photograph from being representational.