An essay on "the bombardment of (by) visual images in contemporary society..."

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Topic:

"The bombardment of visual images in contemporary society has the effect of making people less able to focus clearly and extensively on a single issue over a long period of time."

Essay:

The topic proposes the idea that in the contemporary world too much visual images are provided to people making them less able to intently focus on a single issue over a long period of time. And a tacit statement may inferred that all or at least most of visual images nowadays incorporate too many issues, so that it is difficult to get concentrated on one of them ignoring all others. It is out of question that the amount of visual information people perceive nowadays is immense. However, to agree or disagree with the statement about excessive complexity of contemporary visual images, various types of visual images should be considered and their content should be analyzed.

The first type of a visual image to be considered is a photograph. There are a plenty of photography styles. If take the landscape photography, photos of this style are likely to embrace large amounts of space and include many details. One may say, that such photographs contain lots of issues to perceive and think about, which makes it difficult to extract a single issue from an image and consider it separately. However, if take the object photography, photos of this style usually contain an image of a single object or few. Such photographs are not likely to be overloaded with details, so that a viewer may easily separate various ideas within a single photography and perceive them individually. Another example is the conceptual photography. Such photographs may contain lots of details, but a good photography of that kind clearly expresses a single idea not occluded by the ornament. So, some photographs are complex and versatile, which makes them more convenient for being perceived as a whole, while some other photographs provide a single idea or few, which may be easily perceived individually. The same reasoning may be applied to paintings, since they expresses images similar to photography but in a slightly different form.

Another example of visual images are images one perceives while viewing a film or a play at the theatre. Though, the cinema and the theater are considered together, the images they produce are quite different. In many films, especially in commercial ones, viewers are really being bombarded by a powerful stream of dynamic and colorful images, while images produced on the theatre's stage are usually more frugal and less diverse. This modesty of image stems from much lower budgets of theatrical plays, and the impossibility of quick and complete change of decorations during the performance. Of course, there exist extremely gorgeous plays and very poor films, making all stated above look reversed, but, as experience suggested, these are rather extremes than general cases.

Summarizing, contemporary visual images of many kinds seems to be quite complex, so that it is hard to discern individual concepts within them. But visual images of other kinds represent laconic and definite pictures, in which even an unsophisticated viewer will grasp the general idea and keep focus on it for quite a time. However, a genuine connoisseur will always be able to distinguish even a thoroughly veiled idea within the most convoluted piece of art and keep a focus on it for as long as it is necessary.

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Victor