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Art and life: the colonization of memory and identity


Source: AFP/Antonio Scorza

National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry's famous "Afghan Girl" picture becomes a prop for revelers  at carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this week. The dancers dressed in burkas, while carrying a framed picture of Shabat Gula, the girl's name, illustrates how images maintain relevance as a cultural tropes in societies around the world over time.

The picture of the revelers also reminds us what Crownshaw was talking about when he spoke of how the human mind can "colonize" memory and identity. 

February 21, 2007 in Agenda Setting, Education, Media Criticism, Media Ethics, photographic ritual, photography, Photojournalism, photojournalism criticism, photojournalism education, Picture Editing, Southern Oregon University, visual journalism education, visual perception, Visual Rhetoric and Metaphor, ways of seeing |

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