Photo Language.

Denotative- What the image is trying to describe

Connotative- The second underlying meaning. What is the image about?

Roland Barthes in Camera Lucinda stated there were 2 factors in play in an image.

1 The Sturdium "a general enthusiastic commitment"

2 The Punctum a factor in the image such as a spec or cut that opens it up to enquiry by the viewer seeing the image.

                                                  
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An example of photographic language 

A Family On Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, New York | The Art Institute of Chicago (artic.edu)

Lawn takes up 2/3rds of the image. Creating a sense of emptiness and dislocation. 

Trees have a dark overbearing presence which adds to the gloomy atmosphere evident.

Parents are separated by a table. Seem isolated and detached as individuals.

Wife is for show and not in a loving relationship with the male.

Child is turned away. Not a loving family.

The title which A Family on their Lawn on a Sunday isn't what's shown on the image, this is contradicted. 

The image above shows a female turned away from the viewer. She is not engaging with the photographer/viewer. She is in a state of being half undressed and has a family view of a couple, house and the sun on her upper back. This has been produced by somebody else. The scene is childlike and idealistic- it feels the lady has missed out on this kind of stable upbringing and has had a troubled childhood.