What kind of image is this? Is it a found image or created by the ethnographer (or a combination)? What is notable about its composition | scale of attention | aesthetic?

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March 1, 2020

Photograph. The vantage point of the photo is very interesting.. We can sort of feel the distance between us “the viewer” and Wilma and the heaps of documents that seperate us. Maybe a metaphor for activism work? Or the space between the corporation and X (substitute activists, fenceline communities, workers, etc.).  Actually getting to Wilma seems inaccessible via this photograph. Getting to the expert or the expertise. The distance really is the most notable aspect of the photo. The angling is quite genius if the photograph was going for that feeling of disconnection or inability to reach for the end. 

 

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March 1, 2020

This is a photograph, not taken by the author. The composition is very helpful in communicating ethnographic scale and the character of the subject. I find it aesthetically very engaging.

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