Photo-Poetics: Photographic Narratives in the New Journalism

<p>Americans today have come to remember the unrest of the 1960s through the many shocking photographic images that emerged during that time. Images of assassinations, war, murders, and social upheaval have come to characterize this decade as particularly (perhaps perversely) photogenic. Further, these images have revealed the photographic medium as uniquely suited for confirming a violent reality that, at the time, seemed incomprehensible to an increasingly disillusioned public. In this discussion I seek to develop an understanding of photography as a theoretical process that can illuminate how we represent violent subject matter. In doing so, I apply these concepts to the New Journalism of the 1960s, which can be viewed as texts that grapple with the same types of social turbulence depicted in the many indelible images that have come to characterize this time period.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Hosemann, John David, Jr.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Monika Gehlawat
• Charles Sumner
• Martina Sciolino

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/537

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1591