What’s in a caption? <http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=473>
By *Ashokan Nambiar* *Carrying forward the debate on the politics of photo-captions initiated by Anoop, I am posting my piece that I wrote in January 2007. * By writing a caption which only the progeny of Golwalkar could have written/write, The New Indian Express has showed where its ideological sympathies lie. But they are not alone, many so called progressive and secular media publications also suffer from the same vice. The print media is careful nowadays about its visual presentation to attract readers who are sometimes described as `scanners’. So the news papers and magazines give much importance to photographs and their organisation. The caption, being an inevitable part of photograph has also undergone certain changes in its presentation style which will be dealt briefly in the later part of this essay. However, this article is not about the changing pattern of the style of presentation of caption or photograph but seeks to unravel certain ideological underpinnings of some of the captions that appeared recently in some of the news papers and a news magazine published in India. [image: muslim_girls_vandematarm_pe_20070115] Photo published by Outlook weekly with the caption 'We're Indian Too' Captions are used in news papers and magazines primarily to provide the reader with necessary information such as naming/identifying persons and objects and the context of the photo etc. But there has also been an increasing tendency to follow the title-sub-title style with a colon while writing caption. News papers like The Hindu and The Times of India follow this style as a norm but The New Indian Express and Deccan Herald use this style while writing caption for lead photos and other `important’ photos. For the purpose of this article I will be analysing some of the `title captions’ (which appear before the caption or on the top of the photo) which appeared in the January 9th edition (Bangalore) of newspapers such as The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Deccan Herald and also the Outlook year-end bumper issue. Read more… » http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=473 <http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=473#more-473> -- "Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly" -- Ranjit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
