INSIDE THE PHOTOGRAPHS

Wade Goddard who is open “The War Photo Limited Gallery” displayed war photograph such as war in Dubrovnik back in the early 1990s and war between Israel and Lebanon. The idea of this gallery is to get the visual view from the war and to know exactly what happened during the war. Today, people almost forget about the war, through this gallery Wade Goddard tries to keep the memory of the war and make them aware about the conflict. Therefore, they will understand that war cause a lot of consequence such as dead women and dead children.

Photographs are different from television or newspaper. It because television and newspaper have editor who can choose what information, angle and text they want to publish and sometimes they just give the general information about the war because they are in neutral side. According to Kress & van Leeuwen (2006), reading words and images involve more senses compared to words alone.Furthermore, throughout image people can see actual situation to what happen at that time. Moreover, people can see what people feel at that time through their eyes or their expression on the pictures. Photographs are the most important to represent “real” situation in their real-life settings (walsh, 2006, p 32). In addition, every photograph has a meaning. Any given image contains a number of such representational and interactive relations (Kress & Leeuwen, 1996). Therefore, people can get involved through their feeling into the pictures.

List of References

1. Heizman, S 2007, ‘The power of the photograph’, The Media Report, Viewed 9 June 2009, <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2007/2051819.htm>
2. Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T. 2006. Reading images. Chapter 6: The meaning of composition.
3. Mozilla.org 2001,’Mozilla Editor’, Viewed 8 June 2009, <http://www.mozilla.org/editor/>
4. Walsh 2006, The ‘textual shift: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian Journal of language and literacy, 29(1), pp 24-37

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