Philosophical and linguistic rationale for the visual language of photography

Abstract

The article is devoted to visualization. It presents a philosophical attempt to justify the linguistic and the visual language of photography. The main difference between photos from other images is not a reproduction of objects of reality and their fixation. At the time of the shooting man captures the act of existence of objects in reality, their position and interaction in space. In the language through the sign system is fixed idea about the realities of the world. In the act of thinking expressed in a verbal language, it was a combination of ideas about the world, and in the act of existence, is recorded by the camera, it was a combination of themselves the realities of their number and interaction to a specific unit of time. The article puts forward the assumption of existence of communication, accumulation and cognitive functions of the visual language of photography (the latter is the understanding of the act of existence of objects and their interaction in the picture). Attempts to resolve the question of the subject and the predicate in a visual statement. The article also identifies the possibility of a functional approach to the language of photography, theoretically justified the existence of levels of language in photographic images, their possible field structure. Extends the interpretation of the notion of modality in the visual statement