“Is it not only common to refer to any object of interpretation as a text at the collegiate level, it is written into the very course catalog descriptions.” “In one of the aesthetics courses I took in grad school, the main text for that course was Performance Studies: The Interpretation of Aesthetic Texts.” “This usage dates from at least Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method (1975) and is inferred by Roland Barthes in \”The Photographic Message,\” no. 742.” “1, Communications (Paris, 1961)” “While Barthes wrote that \”(t)he photographic image (…) is a message without a code,\” he did speak of reading the photographic image as parallel with the reading of its caption and title.” “So, if I were you, I would likely argue that the 1961 article represents the archetypal use of \”text\” to refer to non-written objects of interpretation.”