{"id":1721,"date":"2024-10-02T12:44:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T16:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/?page_id=1721"},"modified":"2024-10-28T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:08:09","slug":"outside-the-frame-an-image-analysis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/outside-the-frame-an-image-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside the Frame: An Image Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stephen Paur<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assignments &amp; Activities Archive<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Paur-AAA-contribution.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Paur-AAA-contribution.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-cd8c5283-e778-4968-8f1a-78cf2e7fab57\" href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Paur-AAA-contribution.pdf\">Paur-AAA-contribution<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Paur-AAA-contribution.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-cd8c5283-e778-4968-8f1a-78cf2e7fab57\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assignment Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">This assignment invites students to critically analyze the rhetorical and emotional effects of images. The project is basically an exercise in contextualizing a news photo. It would work well as the culminating assignment for a unit on visual rhetoric, digital literacy, multimodality, mass media, or the public sphere. The type of photographic imagery this research project emphasizes is photojournalism, or documentary photography. Students analyze an emotionally charged photo that was circulated recently by a credible news organization. They conduct secondary research to determine the image\u2019s possible meanings and messages, analyzing not only what the image shows, but also what the image says (and doesn\u2019t say), how the image says it, and why the image\u2019s context (real or perceived) shapes its meanings and messages. \u201cUnless [a photograph] is supported with extraphotographic evidence, it will be mired in platitudes . . . truths for which no photographic argument is required,\u201d writes Teju Cole (\u201cWhat Does It Mean\u201d). In the process of supplying contextual, \u201cextraphotographic\u201d evidence, students adapt claims and lens concepts from assigned readings by Cole, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin, \u00c9douard Glissant, and others as they compose a compelling interpretation of their image. (See Appendix A and Appendix B for lists of questions meant to generate ideas and provoke discussion.) Instead of offering a laundry list of all possible details related to their image, students should focus on what they think is the most significant set of circumstances \u2014 cultural, political, economic, ecological, geographic, or historical \u2014 to which their image is somehow tied. The goal, ultimately, is to spark thought and discussion about photography\u2019s moral, emotional, and ideological effects, including the complex ways that \u201cphotographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe\u201d (Sontag 1). As Cole writes, \u201ctaking photos, looking at photos, and being the subject of photos are mutually reinforcing activities in which the participants are interdependent and complicit\u201d (\u201cWhat Does It Mean\u201d). Students who complete this assignment will come to see photography as a powerful, even perilous rhetorical tool, practice, and medium \u2014 one that can \u201ccondense events into icons\u201d (Linfield), reveal \u201cunconscious optics\u201d (Benjamin 237), and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Paur Assignments &amp; Activities Archive Assignment Description This assignment invites students to critically analyze the rhetorical and emotional effects of images. The project is basically an exercise in contextualizing a news photo. 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