Photo readings, as a private matters hermeneutic

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What we learned in modern hermeneutics philosophy, implies the interpretation and wide open to the horizons among the addressee and the text. The text - what a literary work or artistic effect - that is interpreted by their addressee, will be exist in front of addressee; and the text grants life to its addressee to. Being Exist will appear between text and audience, and the dialogue is its foundation. Dialog that occurs between these opens the text for the audience and give him intellect about himself. Photo interpretation depends on its prominent situation among other artistic texts. From one point, photo, is like an artistic work and manages its own interpretation by using hermeneutic rules. From another point, as Roland Barthes emphasized in his last book about photography (Camera Lucida) photo that is remnant of the past time, shows what is related to a inexistence time but certainly has a source in past time. Also, addressee find the photo as a past remnant which lived next to it and his life is reflected by it in a particular manner. Images, are remnants of long past now which can never exist now, but in human memory. For this reason, pictures, the existence of the last, are talking about a world that was an "exist" beside us in the past, but not now, for sure, in the same manner. This lack of what the picture shows by persistence, and understanding of such suddenly bitter matter, will make the audience confused and sometimes bewildered. The important of the issue will be apparent when we face to the family photo album. These images will be in a close communication with their audience, and obviously, trace the element of love and affection – to the same person that the photo is showing and the audience should mines its existence just in the photograph- in them. Because such images are built in the life that he live it and have subscription with the emotional reserve of the past. So special viewer of these photos, in face of observational reviewing of them, suffers a perplexity and sorrow, too. However, audience layers of understanding, based on the teachings of modern philosophical hermeneutics itself had risen of before achievements, pre assumptions, and pre understandings that the audience with all of those go to face with all their photos, and so much and over it involved with love and affection. A love that audience inherits from his lived past with those who lived with them. picture interpreting, still yet in his world, is sometimes based on form, shape, or photographer comments and intentions or in its most optimistic modern case according to the understanding of the audience whose whole cultural knowledge and whole cultural prominence is applied for delivering a good interpretation of photograph and presenting it to the photography world. Private and family photos show the clearness of this fact and arouse the most amounts of internal reactions and this is a sign of different understanding of photos hermeneutic

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