Visual Communications
Use Words, Pictures, and Designs in Equally in Respectful Ways:
THINK and QUESTION
Question everything!
The More You Know, The More you See
Visuals Tell History
Progress:1903 Wright Brothers take flight
Injustice: 1930 Lynchings
Visuals remind us of injustice, inhumanity
Visuals become iconic but are they natural scenes or manufactured?
War 1945
Joe Rosenthal Photo
It’s easy to manipulate any photograph
A picture is not always reality
Is this necessary? Nagasaki
War- what is it good for?
Visuals make us question
War is over 1945
A famous kiss by two unknowns
Visuals tell a story of a particular day
They make us feel
Alfred Eisenstaedt photo
Revolutionary
Che Guevara
Would he be happy with the way his picture is
used today?
A Visual can become iconic
Alberto Korda photo
1968 Viet Cong- War
When war was televised
Television in the living room
An iconic image can bere-purposed to make a statement
Adbusters
A Visual can affect opinion of war, perhaps help change events to come
Edward Adams photo
1970 Protests of War - Kent State
John Filo photo
Beware the PackWe must
Neither of these are looting!
Watch biased reporting
Dave Martin AP photo
Chris Graythen AP photo
There are more than pretty white
girls who go missing
The “good old days” weren’t always so good
Reality TV- It’s not the real world
There are no smart bombs. Bombs kill people
No group is superiorQuestion everything!
1989 Stand up! Broadcast on the internet Tiananmen Square
Arab Spring 2011Power to the People!
How much have we changed?Robert Cornelius 1839 The first selfie
We’ve been to the moon
Man On the Moon
Our Planet Will we save our planet?
Dove of peace : Picasso - Art makes a difference!
There must be some way out of here
Hope
Jack Hollow Photography
What have over 40 million people done lately?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs
Continue to question everything
..communicate!!
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