1) For your next blog post, you will complete the first pre-writing assignment for WP1. As the overall project guidelines state, you will need to select a photograph that will function as your primary source material to be analyzed. Once you select an image and record any salient information about the text, you will perform a cursory analysis. Begin by making some initial inferences about the subject matter. If there are people in the photograph, what relationships might exist between them? What sort of lives do they live? etc. If the photograph contains architecture or landscape, what type of activities would occur there? What type of people populate these buildings or landscapes? How does the geography or structural elements make you feel? etc. The post should be 500 words, include the image you selected, and 2 relevant hyperlinks. DUE: Thursday, September 24 @ 12:30PM.
2) In class on Thursday, we will be analyzing the following photograph. You can click the image for a larger view:
For homework, I would like you to jot down some notes about this image, 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. For more information about this photograph can be found here (type "a cross roads store, bar" into the search field to get the image).
3) You should also read the following articles found online: 1) regarding cultural differences and vectors of attention, 2) regarding the history of American photography (make sure you click through the the essay's main sections, not just to the orange synopsis), and 3) if you are interested in the photographic essay, the piece on Korea.
2) In class on Thursday, we will be analyzing the following photograph. You can click the image for a larger view:
For homework, I would like you to jot down some notes about this image, 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. For more information about this photograph can be found here (type "a cross roads store, bar" into the search field to get the image).
3) You should also read the following articles found online: 1) regarding cultural differences and vectors of attention, 2) regarding the history of American photography (make sure you click through the the essay's main sections, not just to the orange synopsis), and 3) if you are interested in the photographic essay, the piece on Korea.
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