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

[icepixie]

I think so, yes. It might be a light for a bong; I can't tell. I'd love to see an analysis of it.

I'm totally adding it to the image bank. We'll see if anyone chooses it.

Great! I had friends who had to choose an image from an art exhibit at school that was rather disturbing.

Yeah, I am all about the options; I hate being dictated to. Their final paper is going to be on any issue they want.

Very good idea. I hope the kids will be inspired by what you have available.

Me too!

Also, #3 in this set might a good one: http://photofreedom.livejournal.com/153791.html

Those are very nifty indeed.

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

Hey, are your B5 discussion posts and fic all tagged? I would guess they are, but haven't had time to check. I need to write a couple of papers and am currently bribing myself with fun stuff (like going back through your posts!) so I actually finish these papers.

[icepixie]

Aw, my LJ is bribe material! Yay! :)

Everything B5--discussion, fic, graphics, etc.--is indeed tagged "babylon 5." The few Crusade posts are tagged "crusade."