Four case studies in close reading images, using some of the ideas from class: "Afghan Girl," the recent image of Kyle Hockenberry's tattoo from Battleland, the Iwo Jima/Twin Towers connection, and a

1. Close Reading
Images:
Some Sample Discussions
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2. “ Afghan Girl”
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8. “ No Idle Boast: A
Soldier’s Tattoo
Becomes Truth”
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11. Iwo Jima and the World
Trade Center
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14. "Appearances also cohere within the mind as
perceptions. The sight of any single thing or event
entrains the sight of other things and events. To
recognize an appearance requires the memory of other
appearances. And these memories, often projected as
expectations, continue to qualify the seen long after the
stage of primary recognition" (Berger).
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16. “Gunning for Wall
Street, with Faulty
Aim” (Sep 23 NY
Times)
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17. Michael Kirby Smith for The New York Times
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18. “Anti-Wall Street
Protests Spreading to
Cities Large and
Small” (Oct 3 NY
Times)
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19. Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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