1/28/2004 slide 11
Framework Roadmap
•Evaluating your
approach
1.Does it take images seriously (goal of Power of Images lectures)?
2.Does it consider the social context in which the image
was made and is viewed?
3.Does it consider your own “ways of seeing”?
•Methodology
characteristics
–What are main sites of research?
1.Production of image (how it is made)
2.Image itself (what it looks like)
3.Audience (how it is seen)
–What are key “modalities” of interest?
1.Technological (tools used)
2.Compositional (formal design strategies)
3.Social (economic, political, social relations,
institutions and practices,
cultural settings, etc.)