![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. To understand the transformed and transforming nature of images in culture, we must first understand the components of the image: the compositional or visual language, the cultural context of the image, and the medium in which the image appears. ![]() Image operates both as an integral part of an organic, changing energy system that generates momentum towards a cultural shift, and as a footprint that references visual metaphors in describing a cultural shift that is taking - or has taken - place. In this way, image and how we read images are both the trace element of and a visual wake following the shifts in our collective understandings. ![]() Likewise, as a culture undergoes change, the images of the culture are transformed. Images in any culture are constantly changing and as they change, they transform the culture. The images in and of a culture reflect our cultural understandings of ourselves.
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