Bias in Photographs and Images  

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1. What is in the image?2. Why would someone create this the way

they did?3. What were the Artist/photographer’s

motivations?4. What is represented (people, places,

objects, etc.)?5. How is it positioned in the image?

(powerful, powerless, uncivilized, etc.) 

Using the five questions above to analyze each of the images below. Use the chart provided to record your finds.

Questions Image 1 Image 2 Image 3List everything you can identify

in the image.

Why do you think someone created

this image?

Identify any biases contained

in the image.

(Look at the people, objects, language/words,

etc.)How are objects positioned in the

image?(Are they powerful,

powerless, uncivilized, etc.)

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