Rachel Lee Annotations

Can you suggest ways to collage, add to the framing, or otherwise elaborate this image to strengthen its ethnographic messaging?

Monday, December 3, 2018 - 9:25pm

I would blow up the image of the police officer playing Connect 4 so that this is the only image on the left side. It has such affective force that I think it should be the main focus point of the image. As the image is now, it is hard to find a focus point.

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Describe your immediate reception or impression of this image (visceral, emotional, intellectual)?

Monday, December 3, 2018 - 9:24pm

The image of the police officer playing connect 4 with the young boy in touching. I want to relish in this captured moment in which male police officers and the boy (who is normally the subject of policing) have a moment of intimate connection. It is almost a representation of a father-son moment in which the police officer has the opportunity to have fun with a young boy, while also teaching him something about life. However, despite the egalitarian nature of this image, the statistics on the right show the actual inequality of the relationship between the police force and the public school child who, one might imagine, could be interrogated by the police officer without the child's parents even knowing about it.

 

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What concepts can you derive from this image?

Monday, December 3, 2018 - 9:22pm

This image projects the concept of policing as benevolence. This is clearly ironic with the statistical data from the ACLU next to the images of the friendly police officers. The statistical data shows how much free reign police have in public schools in California.

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