TY - JOUR AU - Seamon, David PY - 2014/12/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Looking at a Photograph – André Kertész’s 1928 Meudon: Interpreting Aesthetic Experience Phenomenologically JF - Academic Quarter | Akademisk kvarter JA - AcademicQuarter VL - 0 IS - 09 SE - DO - 10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i09.3268 UR - https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/3268 SP - 321-335 AB - <p>Focusing on André Kertész’s 1928 photograph of the Paris suburb, Meudon, I consider a phenomenological means for exploring aesthetic encounter with a photograph. Drawing on my own interpretive work with this image as well as student responses, I delineate a continuum of encounter ranging from partial seeing to deeper aesthetic insight. Making use of the hermeneutic designations suggested by philosopher Henri Bortoft (2012), I identify a lived continuum of aesthetic experience that extends from limited assimilation through a more involved appropriation to an engaged participatory understanding.</p> ER -