Mirror Effect in Photography Technique and Its Secondary Meanings
Mirror Effect in Photography Technique and Its Secondary Meanings

Summary/Abstract: Starting from Roland Barthes’s theory according to which the image is a system on two levels, that of denotation and that of connotation, this essay takes into account several semiotic models useful in the analysis of the photographic perception process. The iconic signs being culturally codified, even the photography, that doesn’t seem to raise interpretation problems, offer a series of information that make up the channel and the context of the perception process. The image in the mirror cannot be defined as an image, but as a reflection, a thing face to face with that other thing. In exchange, the mirroring of the emotional situation triggers off esthetic impulses at the level of the message understanding and acceptance.

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