analyzing images: documentary/news photography

ANALYZING IMAGES:

DOCUMENTARY/NEWS

PHOTOGRAPHYENC 1101

Composition 1

VISUAL LITERACY

• Awareness of importance of visual communication and ability to interpret or make meaning out of images.

ANALYZE

• divide or dissolve whole into its parts

• examine these parts carefully

• look at the relationships among them

• use this understanding of the parts to better understand the whole.

INCREASING PERSUASIVENESS

• 1. What objects, people or places stand out in each photo?

• 2. What is dominant impression of each photo?

Sorrow

INCREASING PERSUASIVENESS CONTD.

• 3. Examine similarities and differences among the photos

INCREASING PERSUASIVENESS CONTD.

DOCUMENTARY & NEWS

PHOTOGRAPHS • Aimed at shaping the way we think &

feel about an event or cultural/historical phenomenon

ANGLE OF VISION & CREDIBILITY

• Photos can be manipulated and falsified

RHETORICAL CONTEXT

• What words come to mind when you view a photo?

• What is the mood or overall feeling conveyed by the photo?

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS

• Can work on the viewers mind and heart

• Every aspect suggests energy

• Taken from Allyn + Bacon A Guide to Writing pages 171-182