About-to-die Moment
How do images affect a persons mind?
As they say a picture is worth a thousand words and can bring back a lot of memories that we may have forgotten. Images like the image of “The Soiling of Old Glory” taken by Stanley Forman in 1977; can take viewers back to a place of segregation and racism. In 1977 there were a number of protest incidents that turned severely violent, even resulting in deaths. In one case, a black attorney named Theodore Landsmark was attacked by a group of white teenagers as he exited Boston City Hall. One of the youths, Joseph Rakes, attacked Landsmark with an American flag. When you first see this image you instantly get a sense of pathos because you see a white teenager with an American flag in his hand charging towards the black mans as if he was going to hurt the man. The anger on the teenagers faces and there body language can tell us that something happened that day that set them off. Also we see in the face of the black man that he was scared and looked like he was caught off guard by everything. An image can have a power effect on a viewer’s mind even images that we might not know what happen can trigger emotions inside of us back to that moment. Our minds start to wonder what happened or what didn’t happen. In Barbie Zelizer’s “The Voice of The Visual in Memory” she addresses how images can play a role in a person’s collective memory. Collective memory is the memory that people share about events that happened in the past. People use images on the internet, books, magazines, newspapers etc, because images capture specific moments in time that we can always look back on and see that day again. Zelizer explains how images have the ability to suspend an event midway at its most powerful moment. In terms of memory images are a way to guide us through weather a event happened or not by giving us the visual record we needed. Images help us to remember times and event from the past, this justify Zelizers point that images are the
As they say a picture is worth a thousand words and can bring back a lot of memories that we may have forgotten. Images like the image of “The Soiling of Old Glory” taken by Stanley Forman in 1977; can take viewers back to a place of segregation and racism. In 1977 there were a number of protest incidents that turned severely violent, even resulting in deaths. In one case, a black attorney named Theodore Landsmark was attacked by a group of white teenagers as he exited Boston City Hall. One of the youths, Joseph Rakes, attacked Landsmark with an American flag. When you first see this image you instantly get a sense of pathos because you see a white teenager with an American flag in his hand charging towards the black mans as if he was going to hurt the man. The anger on the teenagers faces and there body language can tell us that something happened that day that set them off. Also we see in the face of the black man that he was scared and looked like he was caught off guard by everything. An image can have a power effect on a viewer’s mind even images that we might not know what happen can trigger emotions inside of us back to that moment. Our minds start to wonder what happened or what didn’t happen. In Barbie Zelizer’s “The Voice of The Visual in Memory” she addresses how images can play a role in a person’s collective memory. Collective memory is the memory that people share about events that happened in the past. People use images on the internet, books, magazines, newspapers etc, because images capture specific moments in time that we can always look back on and see that day again. Zelizer explains how images have the ability to suspend an event midway at its most powerful moment. In terms of memory images are a way to guide us through weather a event happened or not by giving us the visual record we needed. Images help us to remember times and event from the past, this justify Zelizers point that images are the