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Research Links


Chapter 7.
Visual Exercise
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Re:Searching the Web
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PORTFOLIO: Collaborate (five advertisements)
    Imagine Campaign
    Amnesty International's Imagine campaign page.

    Mersey World
    Lyrics for John Lennon's "Imagine." The rest of the site is a tribute to Lennon, with pictures and interviews.

    Rock the Vote
    Other Rock the Vote ads can be found here, at the organization's official site.

    Sierra Club
    This page on the Sierra Club site provides audio, video, and print ads.

Isabel Allende, "Omayra Sanchez" (essay)
    Isabel Allende Resources
    An annotated list of links to web sites on Allende, many dealing with the illness and death of her daughter, Paula. These sites provide a clear context for Allende's essay "Omayra Sanchez."

    Isabel Allende
    This site includes a long Q&A with the writer.

Nick Hornby, Richard Billingham (essay)
    Penguin UK
    The Penguin Books web site devotes an entire page to author Nick Hornby. Viewers can learn more about the author, read interviews, and hear about the film About A Boy, which was adapted from Hornby's novel.

    Design Boom
    This profile of Richard Billingham includes a few more pictures from the exhibition.

PORTFOLIO: WritersCorps (five paired poems and images)

James Rosenquist, Professional Courtesy (painting)

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (mixed media)

Office of National Drug Control Policy, Tommy (advertisement)
    The Anti-Drug
    This web site features a number of anti-drug ads, including this one.

Edward Tufte, "PowerPoint Is Evil" (essay, photograph, and two slides)

RETROSPECT: Picturing War (six photographs)
    Library of Congress
    The Library of Congress maintains an archive of Civil War photographs. This page from the LOC's web site examines the Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter photograph.

    Robert Capa
    An excellent overview of Capa's D-day photographs.

    Nick Ut
    Ut recalls the events surrounding his famous photograph.

    Jean-Marc Bouju
    Bouju talks about the photograph he took of the Iraqi man holding his son.

Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Pain of Others" (essay)

LOOKING CLOSER: The Ethics of Representation
    Museum of Hoaxes
    The Museum of Hoaxes has four pages that test one's ability to tell a real photograph from a hoax. Many of them are obvious hoaxes, but some are surprisingly true. This site could be useful, especially if students tend to oversimplify people's gullibility.

    Mitchell Stephens
    A bibliography and links to essays by Mitchell Stephens.

    Rankin
    This web site features hundreds of photographs by Rankin.

    National Press Photographers Association
    This site features more discussion by John Long on the ethics of digital photography. There are several examples of published digitally altered images.

    National Geographic
    The National Geographic web site posts an article about the publication's "photo of the year," which turned out to be a hoax.



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