In this lesson we learnt about changing an image can change history. An example of this is the head of American President Abraham Lincon's head being put on a famous author's body. A famous picture of Italian Dictator Mussolini being pictured on his horse. The actuall photo is doctored becasue the man holding his horse by the reigns has vanished to make it seem that he is capable of controlling the horse rather than not being able to. Because people have modified the images someone from a different generation has no idea and can see history in a different light because the image is so well done.
We were then set a task to work out the denotations and conotations of a photo taken from an event that has happened with no outside knowledge. Denotations included person, clothes, leaning buildings, rubbish and ruins. Conotations include Army, depression, war and disastar.
After we had came up with our own work, in a group we tried to make a story of what we had written and could see. Looking at the photo I assumed that to what I saw was a soldier walking through Iraq but yet it was the earthquake in Italy.
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