Pod Academy

What does an image tell us about the reality it represents? Rod Stonemanʼs latest book, Seeing is Believing: the Politics of the Visual, explores the relationship between world and image in our visually mediated society. In this series, produced and presented by Pod Academy's Esther Gaytan-Fuertes, Rod Stoneman talks about some of the images analysed in his book. In this first instalment of the series, he examines the language of fashion. Rod Stoneman: This photograph is quite extraordinary in many ways. It comes from a magazine called Glamour, Glamour Magazine and it represents a young woman in a vivid red cardigan, I think, well I imagine itʼd be cashmere and sheʼs over intently reading a book by V.I. Lenin called The State and Revolution. It opens a whole series of questions about the relationship of fashion to the image system. One can say that the world of art thatʼs included in the domain of art within the image system has been widened and the boundaries are soft and inclusive —one probably can t