Image
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"These then are the two kinds of image-making (eidolopoiike)--the art of making likenesses (eikastike), and phantastic (phantastike, simulacrum) or the art of making appearances?"--Sophist (360 BC) by Plato "I remember a remark made by Scaliger upon Pontanus, that all his writings are filled with the same images; and that if you take from him his lilies and his roses, his satyrs and his dryads, he will have nothing left that can be called poetry. In like manner almost all the fictions of the last age will vanish, if you deprive them of a hermit and a wood, a battle and a shipwreck." --The Rambler No. 4. Saturday, 31 March 1750 by Samuel Johnson |
Illustration: screen shot from L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat
Illustration: Laocoön and His Sons ("Clamores horrendos" detail), photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen.
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An image (from Latin imago) is an artifact, or has to do with a two-dimensional (a picture), that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.
Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph, screen display, and as well as a three-dimensional, such as a statue. They may be captured by optical devices—such as cameras, mirrors, lenses, telescopes, microscopes, etc. and natural objects and phenomena, such as the human eye or water surfaces.
The word image is also used in the broader sense of any two-dimensional figure such as a map, a graph, a pie chart, or an abstract painting. In this wider sense, images can also be rendered manually, such as by drawing, painting, carving, rendered automatically by printing or computer graphics technology, or developed by a combination of methods, especially in a pseudo-photograph.
A volatile image is one that exists only for a short period of time. This may be a reflection of an object by a mirror, a projection of a camera obscura, or a scene displayed on a cathode ray tube. A fixed image, also called a hard copy, is one that has been recorded on a material object, such as paper or textile by photography or digital processes.
A mental image exists in an individual's mind: something one remembers or imagines. The subject of an image need not be real; it may be an abstract concept, such as a graph, function, or "imaginary" entity. For example, Sigmund Freud claimed to have dreamt purely in aural-images of dialogues. The development of synthetic acoustic technologies and the creation of sound art have led to a consideration of the possibilities of a sound-image made up of irreducible phonic substance beyond linguistic or musicological analysis.
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Still image
A still image is a single static image, as distinguished from a moving image (see below). This phrase is used in photography, visual media and the computer industry to emphasize that one is not talking about movies, or in very precise or pedantic technical writing such as a standard.
A film still is a photograph taken on the set of a movie or television program during production, used for promotional purposes.
Moving image
A moving image is typically a movie (film), or video, including digital video. It could also be an animated display such as a zoetrope.
Literature
In literature, a "mental image" may be developed through words and phrases to which the senses respond. It is just picturing an image mentally, also called imagining hence imagery. It can both be figurative and literal.
See also
- Animation
- Cinematography
- Computer animation
- Computer-generated imagery
- Digital image
- Digital imaging
- Film
- Fine art photography
- Imagery
- Painting
- Photograph
- Photography
- Video
