Image Defined

Image Defined

• An “Image” is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.  ~Ezra Pound

An Instant

In TIME

Intellectual: the storyincluding theme, conflict, and relationships

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Emotional

Sensory

SightSoundTasteTouchSmell

Complex

INSTANT

TIME

TIMEthe continuous passage of existence in which events passfrom a state of potentiality in the future,through the present, to a state of finality in the past

Where do images come from?

•"The poetic image exists apart from causality." Gaston Bachelard

Once it is created, what is it?

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How does image function in writing?

Sun up; work sundown; to rest dig well and drink of the water dig field; eat of the grain Imperial power is? and to us what is it?

The fourth; the dimension of stillness. And the power over wild beasts.

~Ezra PoundCanto 49

How does image function in photography?

How does image function in

photo-manipulation?

TheLogical

Conclusion

When earth's last thesis is copied From the theses that went before, When idea from fact has departed And bare-boned factlets shall bore, When all joy shall have fled from study And scholarship reign supreme; When truth shall 'baaa' on the hill crests And no one shall dare to dream;

When all the good poems have been buried With comment annoted in full And art shall bow down in homage To scholarship's zinc-plated bull, When there shall be nothing to research But the notes of annoted notes, And Baalam's ass shall inquire The price of imported oats;

Then no one shall tell him the answer For each shall know the one fact That lies in the special ass-ignment From which he is making his tract. So the ass shall sigh uninstructed While each in his separate book Shall grind for the love of grinding

And only the devil shall look.

Against the 'germanic' system of graduate study and insane specialization in the Inanities.

Ezra Pound

The Logical Conclusion