Working with Photographs and Visual Texts: Colour
Asked to consider a text, students of English A: Language and Literature very readily discuss colour (color, if you prefer) where it is apparent. They quickly deploy adjectives, suggesting that blue means this, red means that, and so on. They move, in other words, rapidly from denotation to connotation. This isn’t, in itself, problematic – it’s reasonable enough – and frequently there is a plausibility to the claims...