Contemporary Views: Digital Revolution and Suffering
This handout investigates the creation and distribution of digital images of suffering, and considers the role of photography in contemporary conflicts.
PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON 5: HANDOUT 4
1 class period (45-60 min)
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Philosophy
- History and Social Studies
Themes > Culture
Themes > Globalization
Themes > Politics and Citizenship
Themes > War and Foreign Policy
World > The Modern World
- Literature and Language Arts
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Evaluating arguments
- Historical analysis
- Interpretation
- Media analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Textual analysis
- Visual analysis
- ELA Reading: 1, 7, 10
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2
- HSS Reading: 1-2, 7-10
Complete the lesson now with one of our Student Activity Options
- Assign longer selections from Mortensen’s Journalism and Eyewitness Images or Hand’s Ubiquitous Photography, and/or the full text of Sontag’s ”Regarding the Torture of Others” in advance, in place of handout excerpts.
- Reflection and concluding questions may also be assigned as short essays or response papers.