Slides

Slide 1: (untitled)

["Drunk" image]

Slide 2: Critical Analysis of Images


 * Susan Sontag: "Photographs furnish evidence."
 * Vacation photos
 * Crime photos
 * Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins: "A photograph as an intersection of gazes"
 * The photographer's gaze
 * The magazine's gaze
 * What do you not see?

Slide 3: Visual Power


 * Artz: "Photographs in particular attract public attention and suggest truths."
 * Sontag: "[Photographs] do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it."

Slide 4: Politics
 * Artz: "Politicians use symbolism to engage the popular imagination which has no recourse to direct experience."
 * The selection of photos to shape public opinion

Slide 5: Propaganda in the past



Slide 6: Propaganda now

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