In modern times, meaning of the essence becomes reinterpreted before visual images form their own shapes due to the advancement of various media, and deny a certain single concept and show a pluralistic cultural flow. Such phenomenon made the boundari...
In modern times, meaning of the essence becomes reinterpreted before visual images form their own shapes due to the advancement of various media, and deny a certain single concept and show a pluralistic cultural flow. Such phenomenon made the boundaries in the field of art disappear and expanded the possibility of diverse creation, and brought forth a change in photograph and graphics due to the technical advancement of media.
The invention of photography that was realized throughout the 19th century led to the advancement of typography, which utilized photography, and a significance of its meaning can be found in the fact that it led to the age of machinery from the age of manual trade by advancing the mechanical reproduction work of images. Graphic design that corresponded to the sudden social change around the World War I end up directly influencing the visual communication of the 20th century.
The appearance of photograph allowed artists to create a spatial fantasy of the third dimension, and opened up the age of machinery of imagery through the automatic reproduction. However, this media of photograph also ended up transforming at the appearance of a new media called digital. When an image is captured in a digital camera, a variety of graphic form was created as the image was transferred to bit method rather than a chemical process was occurred. Such point in time when photograph and digital technology remediate each other was characterized as a post-photograph age by Mitchell.
In this thesis, how the traditional mode of expression displayed in photograph and graphic is reconstructed through which form in the present digital image was studies through a theoretical perspective of remediation. This thesis consists of the following.
Chapter 1 is an introduction, and, in Chapter 2, the advancement of graphic design through the advancement of typography brought forth through the advancement of photography was described as an introduction and background of photographic, and the non-remediating concept of transparency and over-remediating concept of multiplicity were described through the remediation concept of digital image in Chapter 3. Also, the remediating characteristics of the present digital image were examined by describing the remediation of digital image. In Chapter 4, in the remediating characteristics of digital image, the classification of researchers was categorized into multi-perspective and post-perspective, post-boundary of text and image, mixed image and neutral image. Chapter 5 defined the results and the meaning of this thesis by creating research work through the four categories revealed through the classification of remediating characteristic stated earlier.
The subject of this thesis' research work sought to express the dualistic aspect of a mask, and reject the visual image revealed in humans or any object by dividing the remediating characteristics of photographic that were categorized in the case study such as multi-perspective post and post-perspective, dismantlement of the boundaries of typography and image, photo collage and neutral image based on the key words extracted from the dualistic aspect of a mask and expressed the fact that we, who are living in the present age, live with a self endowed mask such as reputation, materialistic ostentation, consumerism tendency, following of trend, etc.
Lastly, a theoretical approach is still insufficient for the mode of expression presented in this study by classifying the remediating characteristics of digital photographic. In order for photographic to be recognized as a digital art, the isolationistic and post-historic media theory should be corrected through most of all in-depth discussion of and insight for photographic.