1) For your weekend blog post, you will once again pre-write with your selected documentary photograph in mind. Specifically, I would like you to make some notes on the technical aspects of the photograph. How are the subjects arranged? Or, stated another way, what are the “vectors of attention” and how do they foster, or gesture towards the rhetorical appeal of logos, ethos, and pathos? Likewise, how does the photograph employ the techniques of framing, cropping, focus, lighting, and coloration (i.e. hue, saturation, and brightness) to produce a particular rhetorical appeal? Remember, the manner in which the photographer composed the text is based upon specific decisions intended to direct and shape the audience’s attention in a particular way. These techniques and their subsequent rhetorical effects are what we want to focus on. The post should be 500 words, include a relevant multimedia element that is not your selected photograph, and 2 salient hyperlinks. DUE: Tuesday, September 29 @ 12:30PM.
2) For our next class session, I would like you to take some time to look at, think through, and analyze the following photograph, by Samantha Appleton, jotting down some notes as you do so. You can click on the image for a larger view:
After your preliminary analysis, do some research on the historical and cultural context from which the photograph derives (You can find out basic information about the photograph at Verve Photo, but you will need to do additional research and explore more about its particular context). Your research may provide you with new ways of envisioning and interpreting particular aesthetic and technical considerations of the photograph. After you’ve completed your research, return to the photograph and re-examine it. How have your insights altered your perceptions?
2) For our next class session, I would like you to take some time to look at, think through, and analyze the following photograph, by Samantha Appleton, jotting down some notes as you do so. You can click on the image for a larger view:
After your preliminary analysis, do some research on the historical and cultural context from which the photograph derives (You can find out basic information about the photograph at Verve Photo, but you will need to do additional research and explore more about its particular context). Your research may provide you with new ways of envisioning and interpreting particular aesthetic and technical considerations of the photograph. After you’ve completed your research, return to the photograph and re-examine it. How have your insights altered your perceptions?
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