Vietnam presentation

1. FLOWER
POWER:
HOW PHOTOGRAPHY
DURING THE VIETNAM
WAR SPARKED A
REVOLUTION
BY : C AT H R Y N S I M P S O N

2. CONTEXT OF “FLOWER GIRL” PHOTO
•October 21, 1967
•Taxes rising
•Support falling
•Before Kent State and Democratic National
Convention
•Started peacefully at Lincoln Memorial,
eventually stormed pentagon

4. PROTEST LANGUAGE:
USE OF RHETORIC TO TRANSFORM
AND CHANGE SOCIETY – NOT ONLY
CRITIQUING SOME ASPECT OF
SOCIETY BUT SUGGESTING A
SOLUTION
Shock Value
Symbolic
Action
Gives a voice
Taps into vein
of discontent

5. RHETORICAL
STRATEGIES
Pathos Symbolism

9. EFFECT?
Though no direct correlation to war ending…
Unity Discontent “Flower Power”
Then printed in many newspapers worldwide
Published YEARS later December 30, 1969 Look magazine
under title The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the
Bayonet

10. SOURCES
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/flower-child-102514360/
• http://motto.time.com/4695248/vietnam-war-protester-trump-pepsi/
• https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=The%20Ultimate%20Confrontation:%20Th
e%20Flower%20and%20the%20Bayonet&item_type=topic