이미지 텍스트 읽기에서의 시가독성 - 문자 텍스트, 사진 이미지, 독자 관계를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper puts an in-depth study on creating the meaning of how letters and photos are organized amid changes in the poetic structure brought by media transformation in the digital era after the era of letters in terms of photographic poetry discussion. It implies the possibility of image-oriented text reading, a novel method focusing on letter-based text, photographic images, and reader relationships rather than the medium itself. First, this paper identified the possibility that photographic poetry could be read with ancrage, relais, and différance, paying attention to the meaning generation method according to the relationship between text and photography. In this regard, it investigated how the image in the text and the text in the image coexist and have a symbiotic relationship to maximize the meaning. Those two expressive media manipulate the indicative or implicit meaning in a specific direction from ancrage, and relais reading, while being boldly juxtaposed in différance reading to block immersion and create a tense relationship, suggesting the direction of the photographic poetry. In addition, this study tried to identify the possibility that photographic poetry could be read nonlinearly through perception beyond viewing by readers who are the subject of perception. The discussion is on whether the significance of photography can be interpreted from various perspectives, depending on the seeing and perspective of the reader, breaking from a typical reaction or intended reading. Regarding photographic images, ‘What the reader has seen and perceived’ is more important than ‘What is taken in the picture.’ Flat photographic images evoke visual lyrical traits that only the reader remembers and sometimes remain undetected. An understanding of vilisibilité, which combines visibility and readability, is an expectation of new aesthetic effects from image text and a possibility for image text reading simultaneously. In the digital era, the text allows combining and transforming various media to recover polysemy through richer implications and evocation. It implies that readers should be more flexible in reading with new possibilities.