Mitchell_Difficulty_Paper

Mitchell Difficulty Paper Difficulty Paper – Mitchell After reading W.J.T. Mitchell’s essay, The Photographic Essay: Four Case Studies, I found many ideas difficult to understand. The essay revolved around how photographs can be presented with and without an accompanying text and how these two rudiments relate to each other. Throughout the text, Mitchell is trying to show that “photography is and is not a language, and that retrospectively, language is and is not photography” (Mitchell 522). The entire understanding of a photograph and its accompanying text is a difficult relationship to understand. The relationship is described as “a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality” (Mitchell 522). Mitchell uses multiple quotations to try to back up his point. He also uses difficult language throughout the essay. With a combination of a difficult topic, multiple quotations, and difficult language, I found this essay difficult to read. The entire topic of photographs and its relation to text is a difficult undertaking. Mitchell assumed that we as the reader understood the components of art in photography. By not explaining this, the reader has no understanding of photography or any of the elements about mitchell, essay, difficult, reader, text, relationship, understand, photography, language, essays, understanding, point, mitchell’s, topic, quotations, photographs, four, entire, between, throughout, quotes, prove, ideas, each, different, accompanying, about, 522, word, without, value, using, understood, relation, photograph