Visualization and Propaganda teaching slides - Part 1 Course: "What is Information?" Spring 2022

1. Visualization and
Propaganda:
Part 1
Keren Wang teaching slides, 2022

2. My childhood
yaodong or “cave
house”
Digital photography, by Keren Wang, at
Pianguan, summer 2018

3. Digital photography by
Keren Wang, Lanzhou
2018

4. Digital photography by Keren
Wang, Lanzhou, China, 2018

5. (Digital photography by Keren Wang, Lanzhou, China, 2018)

6. Vadim Ghirda/Associate Press (2014)
WHEN & WHERE:
Associated Press photo
of the ongoing Russo-
Ukrainian Conflict,
Eastern Ukraine
WHO?
WHAT?
WHY?

7. WHEN &
WHERE:
Associated Press
photo of the ongoing
Russo-Ukrainian
Conflict, Eastern
Ukraine
WHO?
WHAT?
WHY?

8. Russia-backed
Separatists
being greeted by
their supporters
at a pro-Russian
rally in Donetsk
Lenin Square,
May 25, 2014.
Photo: Vadim
Ghirda, Associated
Press (2014)

9. “The war America waged in Vietnam, the first to be witnessed day after day by television cameras, introduced the
home front to a new intimacy with death and Destruction.”
“It seems that the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is almost as keen as the desire for ones that show
bodies naked.”
– Susan Sontag, Freeze-Frame
© AP Images (2003)

10. Right: Coverage of various topics in ABC, CBS and NBC nightly newscasts in 1994:
Rwandan genocide took place April 7 - July 15, 1994, when O.J. Simpson trial dominated US news media coverage.
Left: 2004 Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda, grossing $33,882,243 in box office revenue.
Source: Livingston, S. and D. Stephen. “American Network Coverage of Genocide in Rwanda in the Context of General Trends in International News” (1998).

11. Visualizations of war before photography: mythological, heroic, idealized narrative
From the left: Narmer Palette c.3100 BC [1]; Mayan Bonampak murals c.700 AD [2]; Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden at the Battle of Breitenfeld, 1632 [3]

12. Crimean War
1854 - 1855
Siege of Sevastopol by Franz
Roubaud, 1855
Keren Wang CAS 420 Lecture Slides

13. Valley of the
Shadow of
Death
Photography by Roger
Fenton, Crimea, April
1855
United States Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs division
Keren Wang CAS 420 Lecture Slides

14. Valley of the
Shadow of
Death
by Roger Fenton, Crimea,
April 1855
Dirt road in ravine scattered
with cannonballs.
(Original version recovered by Errol
Morris in Sevastopol, 2007)
Keren Wang CAS 420 Lecture Slides

15. The home of a
Rebel
Sharpshooter,
photo by Alexander Gardner,
Gettysburg, July 6, 1863
(MoMA Online Collection)
Keren Wang CAS 420 Lecture Slides

16. The home of a
Rebel
Sharpshooter,
photo by Alexander Gardner,
Gettysburg, July 6, 1863
(MoMA Online Collection)
Keren Wang CAS 420 Lecture Slides

17. Raising a Flag over the Reichstag, by Yevgeny Khaldei (May 1945)
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18. Audience adaptation: looted wristwatch or Adrianov compass?
Keren Wang CAS 420 Lecture Slides