This week you have a choice between Martha Rosler’s seminal essay on documentary photography, and a chapter from Susie Linfield’s The Cruel Radiance. Both authors point out the problems with using photography as an instigator of social change, but they come to different conclusions about how its power can and should be harnessed. This is partly because they’re writing from different contexts: Rosler is an artist; Linfield is an academic.
Whichever you choose, please remember that I’m looking for your photo and your explanation to contain some kind of thesis regarding the reading.
Optional photo challenge this week: use color or contrast to affect your composition in some way.