TY - JOUR
T1 - Night and Day
T2 - A Visual Diptych of Hate and Horror in Charlottesville
AU - Keith, Susan
AU - Thornton, Leslie Jean
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Visual Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Communication.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article critically analyzes a pair of photographs from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017: Samuel Corum’s nighttime image of torch-bearing protesters on the University of Virginia campus and Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning daytime image of counterprotesters falling through the air as James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into them, killing Heather Heyer. Using a close reading of the images as texts—considering their production, contrasts, and resonances—we argue that the photographs form a temporal, technical, and theoretical diptych of anger, hate, fear, confusion, and sorrow.
AB - This article critically analyzes a pair of photographs from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017: Samuel Corum’s nighttime image of torch-bearing protesters on the University of Virginia campus and Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning daytime image of counterprotesters falling through the air as James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into them, killing Heather Heyer. Using a close reading of the images as texts—considering their production, contrasts, and resonances—we argue that the photographs form a temporal, technical, and theoretical diptych of anger, hate, fear, confusion, and sorrow.
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U2 - 10.1080/15551393.2020.1862664
DO - 10.1080/15551393.2020.1862664
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85102337014
SN - 1555-1393
VL - 28
SP - 45
EP - 57
JO - Visual Communication Quarterly
JF - Visual Communication Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -