What kind of image is this? Is it a found image or created by the ethnographer (or a combination)? What is notable about its composition | scale of attention | aesthetic?

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Kristin Gupta's picture
March 4, 2020

The image is a found one, coming from materials from the City of Austin. It's composition is notable in a few different ways, particularly in regards to its "universality." (I have come across similar presentations from the City of Houston and they look exactly the same! Do they all use the same PPT generator?)

What jumps out most is the usage of yellow skin tone, similar to emojis. How does this "neutral" nonhuman color signify an erasure of certain experiences by trying to purport that we're all the same?

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