A look at four topics in visual arguments, through the lenses of Berger, Sontag, and Barthes

1. Close Reading
Images:
Some Sample Discussions
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2. “ Afghan Girl”
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8. “ No Idle Boast: A
Soldier’s Tattoo
Becomes Truth”
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11. Iwo Jima and the World
Trade Center
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14. “Gunning for Wall
Street, with Faulty
Aim” (Sep 23 NY
Times)
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15. Michael Kirby Smith for The New York Times
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16. “Anti-Wall Street
Protests Spreading to
Cities Large and
Small” (Oct 3 NY
Times)
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17. Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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