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.