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When trying to understand historical events, people, and created objects (such as music) we look to many forms of information for evidence. One of the most persuasive kinds of modern evidence are photographs. Much of the tragic events on September 11, 2001 caught on video, audio, and in photographs. Richard Drew’s photograph, dubbed “The Falling Man,” and others like it, however, quickly became socially forbidden in the aftermath of 9/11. What is at stake in the photo and the discourse around it?
Some questions you might consider in writing your response to this essay are:
- What do you think about Junod’s statement that “Photographs lie…Especially great photographs”?
- What are the differences between “seeing/recognizing” that Junod writes about when Richard Drew “recognized…what only the camera had seen” in selecting the Falling Man photograph?
- How do we judge when art is “too soon”?
- What do you think of journalism—or art—“witnessing” human events?
- What are your thoughts about Junod’s idea that “history happens later” after the actual events, and that it is “manufactured”?
- Junod makes a distinction between “truth” and “the facts”: what are are differences, if any?
- What is Junod’s writing style like? Does that affect his argument? What do you think is the thesis (main point) of this article? Does Junod support his thesis? How?
Your Reading Response should contain at least one (1) quotation from the reading, which should be correctly cited according to The Chicago Manual of Style format (i.e. a footnote). Below are examples of how this reading—an article in a popular magazine— would be cited in a bibliography and as a footnote. If you choose to quote Junod more than once (a citation from the same source), you should the shortened citation form and not “ibid” (“in the same place”).
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