Bias in Photographs and Images
While
the criteria on the previous page referred primarily to written documentation,
visual text can also contain a bias. The following questions should be asked
when analyzing an image.
1. What is in the image?
2. Why would someone create
this the way they did?
3. What were the
Artist/photographer’s motivations?
4. What is represented
(people, places, objects, etc.)?
5. How is it positioned in
the image? (powerful, powerless, uncivilized, etc.)
Write
down the criteria listed above, and use it to analyze each of the images below.