Monday, October 6, 2014
Establishing Ethos for "Flower in the Gun"
The photographer, Marc Riboud, has a long history in journalism. He has many experiences photographing all over the world. He traveled through both North and South Vietnam. The photograph he takes is published in many publications worldwide. His vast wealth of experience and international appeal give him extrinsic ethos. He is trusted to be a honest photographer. He is trusted to not stage the photograph. This trust makes the image seem more genuine and real. The only problem the photograph has with establishing ethos is that it only shows one view. It could have been framed to promote the photographer's bias. The photograph shows only one of the many protestors and a line of soldiers. This unfair view of the soldiers hurts the general public's respect for the photographer and hinders its effect outside of antiwar protestors.
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I think you did a really good job of establishing his extrinsic ethos by stating a lot of facts about this particular photographer. Personally, I would have liked if you had stated some of the names of other photographs that Marc Riboud did because that would have emphasized his popularity and other works.
ReplyDeleteAlso, your sentence "The photograph he takes is published in many publications worldwide" should say "The photographs he takes are published in many publications worldwide" if I am interpreting what you are trying to say correctly.
I really like the way you point out the way the angle of this particular photograph hurts Riboud's ethos because of how heavily biased it makes the photo appear. This makes it quite obvious what sort of audience Riboud is trying to appeal to though, and so I wonder as to the use of the photograph had it been taken in a more impartial manner.
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