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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Allana L Ross's picture
March 11, 2020
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I assume the image is taken by the author. The composition is a bit central, but the image is thoughtfully composed. The materiality of the vessel is highlighted, the fresh fish shine, and the bodies of the fishers are anonymous, silhouetted against a fog of industry.

Allana L Ross's picture
March 11, 2020
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I assume the image is taken by the author. It is thoughtfully composed, revealing the structure and materiality of the vessel as well placing the fishers against the background of industry. They are silhouettes, obscured by darkness, but bodily against the fog.

Louise Elstow's picture
March 11, 2020

This is a found image and it contrasts well with the other images in the essay - very different to the Van Gogh painting immediately beforehand and completely different to the other two images at the start of the essay.  I feel like I want to know more about the people in the picture - what is happening?  Did he have to wait three months between being upgraded (apologies if this is not the right term)?

Ronny Rafael Zegarra Peña's picture
March 11, 2020
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This is an original image created by the author, composed of highlighted words from a fact sheet report. The vocabulary indicates words separated into three color-coded categories each denoting a past-present-future imaginary about toxicity. I found it interesting how the author used the red color for representing the toxic past, blue for the present, and green for as a promising future. The designed visualization is diagonally shaped with the use of different sized lines, with small and big words interlaced among them, which can represent how history is built about toxicity.

Shilpa Dahake's picture
March 9, 2020
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The images are borrowed from a websites and are juxtaposed in one to show gradual deforestation. It definitely captures the scale of the events.

Fu Yu Chang's picture
March 7, 2020

It is an image of text from a  housing developer in Pasadena combined with colors the author added as they interpret the text.  The use of a green-yellow-red highlighting to signal imagined past-present-futures is very catchy and works well to point to the linguistic agencies behind this promotional text. 

Fu Yu Chang's picture
March 7, 2020
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It is a very nice photo created by the ethnographer.  The focus of the photo goes directly to the net and it works perfectly with the topic of the visual.  I also like the color schemes of the background showing just a little bit of the lights of the city along with a greenish gray sky that seems to represent some form of “toxic” air.

Shilpa Dahake's picture
March 7, 2020

The images is cpatured by the ethnographer and the prespective of the image depicts the contestations between the wild and not wild, the scale of the expanse, and the difficult terrain of the region.

Monique Azzara's picture
March 7, 2020
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This is a created image and is notable for producing a visualization of toxicity that is rendered invisible in the context of this project development. The image is creative and clearly articulates the message.

Kaitlyn Rabach's picture
March 6, 2020
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Found image. Black and white, completely old school. Different shadings. The light on the right side of the picket fence caught my eye first. Is there something unique or historical about the picket fence at this time?  The interesting thing here, too, is that the focus is on the house, not the settlers themselves. In fact, they are almost invisible in the photo. You have to really stare and search for family, which actually seems to be a metaphor for the archive at this time in general. The contributor had to really search for this photo even in the first place. 

 

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