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No Caption Needed - Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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No Caption Needed - Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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Agaunt woman stares into the bleakness of the Great Depression. An
exuberant sailor plants a kiss on a nurse in the heart of Times
Square. A naked Vietnamese girl runs in terror from a napalm
attack. An unarmed man, alone, stops a tank in Tiananmen Square.
Immediately familiar, each of these photographs has become an icon,
galvanizing emotions and shaping public life. But why are these
images so powerful? How did they become so prominent in the
fast-changing worlds of popular culture and political debate? In No
Caption Needed, Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites explore how
these and other photojournalistic images have achieved iconic
status. The authors' in-depth examinations consider both the images
themselves and their circulation over time. They demonstrate how
the decisive moments captured in these individual images are later
reproduced in billboards, cartoons, posters, tattoos, Web pages,
and other media to influence political beliefs, attitudes, and
identity. Iconic images are shown to be models of visual eloquence,
signposts for collective memory, and means of persuasion across the
political spectrum. photos is dangerous because it short-circuits
rational thought, Hariman and Lucaites instead make a bold case for
the necessity of such imagery in modern democratic life. No Caption
Needed is a powerful demonstration of the vital role of
photojournalism - and the emotional responses it triggers - in a
healthy democracy.
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