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TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Life between fingers’
T2 - A response to news photography of an ‘urban ghetto.’
AU - Gutsche Jr, Robert
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This photo essay updates research previously presented in Visual Communication Quarterly about news characterizations of a “Black neighborhood” in Iowa City, Iowa. Shot by preschoolers in the city's Southeast Side, the images in this essay—peppered with the inadvertent appearance of the photographers' fingers—added to an artistic value that cast life there being other than dangerous, dark, and devious. Whereas hands can often be used to conceal, the fingers in these photographs frame special and specific glimpses of life, ultimately presenting a counternarrative to neighborhood characterizations constructed by news photographs.
AB - This photo essay updates research previously presented in Visual Communication Quarterly about news characterizations of a “Black neighborhood” in Iowa City, Iowa. Shot by preschoolers in the city's Southeast Side, the images in this essay—peppered with the inadvertent appearance of the photographers' fingers—added to an artistic value that cast life there being other than dangerous, dark, and devious. Whereas hands can often be used to conceal, the fingers in these photographs frame special and specific glimpses of life, ultimately presenting a counternarrative to neighborhood characterizations constructed by news photographs.
U2 - 10.1080/15551393.2014.892776
DO - 10.1080/15551393.2014.892776
M3 - Journal article
VL - 21
SP - 14
EP - 23
JO - Visual Communication Quarterly
JF - Visual Communication Quarterly
SN - 1555-1407
IS - 1
ER -