This week, you have a choice between Bernd Hueppauf’s “Experiences of Modern Warfare and the Crisis of Representation,” Caroline Brothers’s “Casualties and the Nature of Photographic Evidence,” and Michael Griffin’s “Media Images of War.” Each addresses the relationship between images and war – Hueppauf from a more philosophical perspective, and Brothers and Griffin from a historical perspective.
As you consider your reading this week, try to also think about how it relates to the readings we’ve discussed in class so far.
OPTIONAL PHOTO CHALLENGE: Use selective focus in your image this week. You might have a tough time doing this with some wider-angle lenses — the trick is to make sure you’re very very close to the object in focus, and that the background is far away. Using your zoom function and zooming all the way in can help too, as will shooting in low light (bright light will make your depth of field much larger). Some cameras have macro settings that allow you to focus on objects that are really close to the lens (iPhones seem to do this automatically).