Captions signify the reader to read specific aspects of the photograph through a definition. The caption Migrant Mother signifies there is a relationship with the caption terms in relation to the photograph presented. There is a literal definition to what the caption means and according to Salkeld that the “Denotation, the literal meaning of a signifier and it is the first stage of reading” (Salkeld, 2014, p. 53). So the denotation implies how the reader needs to interpret the image in relation to the choice of words that are in the caption. In the caption Migrant Mother the reader will have to have an understanding of two terms. First word mother which according to the Oxford Dictionary means “A woman in relation to her child or children.”
