UCWR 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Riot Control, Hotel Chevalier, Wes Anderson
25 Apr 2018
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We live in a culture that bombards us with images each and every day. Those images--even the ones that seem unimportant or insignificant--are riddled with message and meaning. Visual rhetoric: the use of images, sometimes coupled with sound and/or appeals to other senses, to make an argument, express a point of view, or persuade us to act as the image-maker would have us act. We begin with many of the same questions we propose when reading a written text: Many visuals do not rely on reasoning the way a written text does: rather, they rely on invocations of emotion or style. Sometimes, images appeal to both emotion and reason. 1994 pulitzer prize, feature photography, kevin carter, the new york times. By february 1993, south african photojournalist kevin carter has spent a decade photographing the political strife roiling his homeland. He describes lying in the middle of a gunfight.
