Ask the Internets Part 1,037

[icepixie]

I'm on a hunt for interesting photographs, paintings, drawings, PSAs, images in general, and, perhaps, even short YouTube videos that I can collect together and give to my 101 students as choices to write a rhetorical analysis on. (If you're not up on your Aristotle, this is essentially a 1,000-word explication of what argument you think the image is making and how it's making it via subject matter, composition, color, pathos/ethos/logos, etc. etc. etc.)

Anyone got some favorites I can add to the list?

Current ones I'm considering are:
- this photo of New York, New York in Las Vegas
- Lange's "Dust Storm at the War Relocation Authority Center..."
- at least one William Wegman photograph
- Tim Davis's "Searchlights"
- one of Layla Essaydi's Converging Territories series
- Roe Ethridge's "Great Neck Mall Sign"
- #2 (both images) in Yeondoo Jung's "Bewitched" series
- Florien Maier-Aichen's "Untitled (2005)"
- others I can't find online, but which are in a book called New Perspectives in Photography (I particularly like an Anna Gaskell photograph that's sort of a modern take on The Wizard of Oz)

Comments

[rensong.livejournal.com]

*If* you want to risk stirring up the hornets nest on War-issues, the first image that came to mind when you mentioned your assignment is this one:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/09/29/slideshow_080929_platon?slide=16#showHeader

It's an amazing photo, but again, not sure if you want something so controversial. If it sparks your interest, though, rest of the pictures from that slide show also offer some extremely potent images.

[icepixie]

That is indeed very cool. I have yet to decide whether I'm going to attempt to ban politics in the class or not--my mentor did in her 101 class, but other teachers had their students analyze campaign materials last fall, so it can be done. Will have to think on that.