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The Visual Anthropologist in the Digital Library from Filmstrips toSalient Stills and Back to Barthes

Zeitlyn, David (2006) The Visual Anthropologist in the Digital Library from Filmstrips toSalient Stills and Back to Barthes. Visual Anthropology Review, 22 (1). pp. 3-13. ISSN 1548-7458. (doi:10.1525/var.2006.22.1.3) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:3687)

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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

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1525/var.2006.22.1.3
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
Depositing User: D. Zeitlyn
Date Deposited: 17 Sep 2008 20:24 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:42 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/3687 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Zeitlyn, David.

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