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TY - JOUR
T1 - Looking through dementia
T2 - what do commercial stock images tell us about aging and cognitive decline?
AU - Harvey, Kevin
AU - Brookes, Gavin
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Qualitative Health Research, 29 (7), 2019, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Qualitative Health Research page: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/qhr on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2019/7/1
Y1 - 2019/7/1
N2 - Commercial stock images are existing, artificially constructed visuals used by businesses and media outlets to articulate certain values, assumptions and beliefs. Despite their pervasiveness and accessibility, little is known about the ways in which stock images communicate meanings relating to health and illness. This study examines a broad range of common stock images that depict dementia and aging, revealing the tendency for older people with dementia to be represented in objectifying and de-humanizing terms—emphasizing disease and deficit at the expense of the whole person, whereas precluding any possibility of enduring personhood. As well as introducing a multimodal critical discourse approach that can be adopted by other researchers examining the ideological underpinnings of health and illness imagery, this study underscores the importance of critically interrogating stock photography—a much neglected, yet profoundly influential, cultural resource that can shape the ways we think about and respond to illness and disease.
AB - Commercial stock images are existing, artificially constructed visuals used by businesses and media outlets to articulate certain values, assumptions and beliefs. Despite their pervasiveness and accessibility, little is known about the ways in which stock images communicate meanings relating to health and illness. This study examines a broad range of common stock images that depict dementia and aging, revealing the tendency for older people with dementia to be represented in objectifying and de-humanizing terms—emphasizing disease and deficit at the expense of the whole person, whereas precluding any possibility of enduring personhood. As well as introducing a multimodal critical discourse approach that can be adopted by other researchers examining the ideological underpinnings of health and illness imagery, this study underscores the importance of critically interrogating stock photography—a much neglected, yet profoundly influential, cultural resource that can shape the ways we think about and respond to illness and disease.
KW - Dementia
KW - Aging
KW - Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis
KW - Visual communication
KW - Stock images
KW - Getty
U2 - 10.1177/1049732318814542
DO - 10.1177/1049732318814542
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 987
EP - 1003
JO - Qualitative Health Research
JF - Qualitative Health Research
SN - 1049-7323
IS - 7
ER -