Night and Day
A Visual Diptych of Hate and Horror in Charlottesville
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21747671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Keith (0000-0002-3382-4060, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), Leslie-Jean Thornton (0000-0003-2689-480X) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-57 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Communication Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1555-1393 • E-ISSN: 1555-1407 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15551393.2020.1862664 |
| OpenAlex | W3135361807 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
This article critically analyzes a pair of photographs from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017: Samuel Corum’s nighttime image of torch-bearing protesters on the University of Virginia campus and Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning daytime image of counterprotesters falling through the air as James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into them, killing Heather Heyer. Using a close reading of the images as texts—considering their production, contrasts, and resonances—we argue that the photographs form a temporal, technical, and theoretical diptych of anger, hate, fear, confusion, and sorrow
Anger · Art · Art history · Confusion · Linguistics · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Sorrow · Visual arts · History · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
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Public Identity and Collective Memory in U.S. Iconic Photography
Enhancing visual literacy through interpretation of photo-genres
Lynching Photography and the Visual Reproduction of White Supremacy
Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography
One image begets another
Reviving icons to death
Performing civic identity
Aesthetics of protest
Denial of racism and the Trump presidency
Memes in a Digital World
| Highly cited | No |
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