This essay aims to focus on the exhibition
Niger Delta Fototales, a photo exhibition on the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's
Independence, showing PEOPLES, Artifacts and ISSUES of the Niger Delta: Novotel
Hotels, Port Harcourt. I take it that "the photographic paradox,"
"the coexistence of two texts, one without a code (the photographic
analogue), the other with a code (the 'art'/the treatment; the' writing'/the
photographic rhetoric)" is at the heart of the photographic matter. I will
try to explore these concepts of modern communication beyond a mere account of
this momentous event by interrogating the messages encrypted in a select number
of images from this display using the vital resources of contemporary
scholarship in an attempt at Explaining the essence of the photo essay itself.
Therefore, the foundations of the collaborative encoded features that intuit
the photograph metonymically unfold the contingent domains of memory and
subjectivity in a reading that imbricates the meaning of the punctum in the
examination of the study's rhetoric. "It is appropriate to accept that
since the idea of eloquence falls as far below the definition of painting as
sight is more powerful than words, it is wisdom to conclude, as the Chinese
saying goes," One picture is worth a thousand words!
Author(s) Details
Graves, P. Nelson,
Department
of Fine and Applied Arts, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni,
Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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