Class Blog for ENG 1131:1363

Writing Through Media
University of Florida
Fall 2010
Instructor: Lauren Glenn
Blog Assignments will be posted weekly.
Student responses will be posted (almost) every Friday.
See Blog links to the right for individual student blogs.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

In-Class Blog: Picturing "The Other"

Key West, FL 2010. Tarzan picks up trash along the beach and
scolds napping native for not recycling his water bottle.

Mystory = moving from interpretation to invention.





**see Picturing Texts p. 247
(1) INTERPRETATION
[Analysis]
Why did you take the photo?
What decisions did you make in composing it?
How did your experience, background knowledge, or assumptions shape
this photo?
[REFLECTION]
Try to imaging what kind of photograph the person in your picture might
take of you.
What caption would that person add to such a photograph?
What assumptions would "the other" make about you?

(2) INVENTION
How might this exercise change the way you take travel photographs,
how you represent others, or what you assume when you snap pictures
of other people?
Can you conceive of a different way (or method) of representing
others in photographs?

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