Jaye's Corner: SHOW AND TELL A VISUAL DEFINITION

Consider the impact that Words & Images have on society

Words, images, advertisements, photography, and media engulf our lives. So, I pose these two questions when viewing my postings:

How do visual and verbal rhetoric affect society? How do they shape communities, people, and cultures?

Both visual and verbal rhetoric influence how people think, feel, and react to what they see or hear. No matter how small the intent, words, images, advertisements, photography, and the media have the power to change a community(s), a person(s), or culture(s).

Monday, September 27

SHOW AND TELL A VISUAL DEFINITION

The two photographs below are taken in the same location, the old Burlington Coat Factory site in New York City where Imam Feisal Abdul is planning to build a mosque near ground zero, but of two different people. I think it's interesting how a photograph of the same site but different people has two separate visual messages/definitions. The person in the top is an anti-mosque protestor and the woman in the bottom is a pro-mosque protestor.