The creation of a text could be the result of a desire for pleasure. This pleasure is felt both by the author of a text as he creates it and by his unknown reader. Pleasure may be the truth latent within a text, one which both the reader and author observe with satisfaction as part of the beauty of the text. Gadamer, a prominent contemporary philosopher regards truth and beauty as two indivisible factors within a text and particularly within a work of art. He believes pleasure is attained once the truth latent within a text is exposed. A photograph or picture, just like a pleasurable text, exposes its truth to that special spectator that manages to see that truth. Roland Barthes analyzes the pleasure attained from a photograph in his book Camera Lucida, devoted entirely to photography. Studium and punctum, two elements resulting in visual pleasure in a photograph were first introduced in Camera Lucida. These concepts can also be used to analyze pictorial (virtual) texts.
Hasanpur, M., Norouzitalab, A. (2011). Picture Interpretation and How to Attain Pleasure from a Text. The Monthly Scientific Journal of Bagh-e Nazar, 7(15), 27-36.
MLA
Mohamad Hasanpur; Alireza Norouzitalab. "Picture Interpretation and How to Attain Pleasure from a Text". The Monthly Scientific Journal of Bagh-e Nazar, 7, 15, 2011, 27-36.
HARVARD
Hasanpur, M., Norouzitalab, A. (2011). 'Picture Interpretation and How to Attain Pleasure from a Text', The Monthly Scientific Journal of Bagh-e Nazar, 7(15), pp. 27-36.
VANCOUVER
Hasanpur, M., Norouzitalab, A. Picture Interpretation and How to Attain Pleasure from a Text. The Monthly Scientific Journal of Bagh-e Nazar, 2011; 7(15): 27-36.
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