TEXT/IMAGE. What type of image is it? What are its qualities/features? What is it about? READER/VIEWER/AUDIENCE. Who do you think was targeted as the most appropriate audience at the time the photos were taken? Who might still regard these photos as compelling visual arguments? AUTHOR/PHOTOGRAPHER. What do you know about the photographer(s)? What might have motivated the photographer to take the picture? What might have been the result?

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This is a photograph of an Israeli soldier in Jerusalem, who is viewing historical photographs at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum.  The photos are of Jewish victims from Auschwitz.  Photojournalist David Silverman, who works for Getty images, took this photo the week before the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

 

  1. TEXT/IMAGE. What type of image is it? What are its qualities/features? What is it about?
  2. READER/VIEWER/AUDIENCE. Who do you think was targeted as the most appropriate audience at the time the photos were taken? Who might still regard these photos as compelling visual arguments?
  3. AUTHOR/PHOTOGRAPHER. What do you know about the photographer(s)? What might have motivated the photographer to take the picture? What might have been the result?
  4. CONSTRAINTS. What influential events, circumstances, traditions, etc. influenced the photographer? What are some possible beliefs, motives, and prejudices of the photographer? How about your own constraints? Do any of your beliefs, attitudes, prejudices etc. influence the way you view these photographs?
  5. EXIGENCE. What is the real world event, problem, motivation that led the photographer(s) to take these photos?
52038798
gettyimages
David Silverman
Transcribed Image Text:52038798 gettyimages David Silverman
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