After reading the ‘Rhetoric of the Image’ by Roland Barthes we were asked to do the following tasks in order to understand the 'Rhetoric of the Image' and also the concept of polysemy better. First we were asked to select 3 random photographs and ask family and friends to come up with a story to link the images together. We selected our images by using http://www.sxc.hu/ to generate random images. The first 3 times we pressed the 'randomizer' button on the website photographs of landscapes were brought up, however we discarded these. Partially out of curiosity to see how random the 'randomizer' is and also as we thought people are unlikely to come up with a story about 3 landscape photographs. The next 3 images we generated are the ones, which we chose and are shown below:
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