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 * Weekly Responses**
 * Week 8: Audience Profile **
 * = Kind of Viewer
 * = Education: ||= Possibly finished high school; working class Americans ||= College student; completed high school ||
 * = Professional Experience: ||= different depending on their jobs; nothing related to photography ||= Placement with children; nothing photography related ||
 * = Job Responsibilities: ||= Working class: they come from the city (Harlem) in which the images were taken. They are focused on getting by day-to-day and not so much with the focus on higher level jobs and education ||= Student; daycare provider; camp counselor ||
 * = Personal Characteristics: ||= Working class individuals; focus on family life; worried about making payments and feeding their families ||= Student; college education; no family responsibilities ||
 * = Personal Preferences: ||= Relating to images: things that they can relate to themselves, something that adds to/tells their story ||= Anything that can be related to development of life; study of children; study of families ||
 * = Cultural Characteristics: ||= Multiracial; both genders; lower class (working class) ||= White; female; middle class ||
 * = Attitude Toward the Photographer: ||= They are indifferent to the photographer. Their own lives are more important to them; not focused on the photograph. Her work related to them though because it presents their actual life ||= I like her work; she took photographs that related to life in the city; city life is not something I am accustom to but it is something ||
 * = Attitude Toward the Subject: ||= They are drawn to these images because they present their daily lives. They don't hold a focus on something unobtainable to these people. The subject is the children on the viewer (the audience) ||= I have a personal feeling of pity for the children being photographed because I have never had to live my life with so little and I think of how unfair it is that they live this way ||
 * = Expectations About the Subject: ||= The subject reflects their own lives back to them. They see how their lives look to the world, see how they relate to everything else that is seen in the media. ||= The subject in Helen Levitt's work was simply the people around the city. I think that the images reflected back to her the life that she lives and what she is around everyday. ||
 * = Expectations About the Photograph: ||= Similar to what they expect from the subject. These images portray the basic needs and daily lives of these people. They don't want to see it glamorized; they want to see it shown how it really is. Life was difficult and to show it any other way would have been fake. ||= When I see her work in black and white, it leaves me wanting to know more of the characteristics of the images (such as the color or the shadows). I like how she went through the city and photographed these people doing regular things and not posing for the camera. Even when the subject looks at the camera, they are still more involved with their own life then what is going to come from the camera ||
 * = Reasons for Viewing the Photograph: ||= They expect to see their lives reflected back to them. They want others to know how hard it is and how much they have to work just to get by. The life in the city had been something people dreamed about and now this dream was no where to be found. ||= To get a glimpse into the past and a real view (not glamorized) of what city life would have been like at this time. My grandmother grew up in the city in the 1930s and 1940s and it provides more of a background of what she is talking about and she gives more knowledge on what may be going on in the images ||
 * = Way of Viewing the Photograph: ||= I'm assuming that they would have viewed the images in print, possibly a newspaper or magazine. The images were not all published together, as they come from different time periods. I think that this makes a difference from how I view the images. ||= I viewed the images as a group on a collection of Helen Levitt's work. They were posted on the Newsweek website and I was able to go through a selection of her photographs; I chose these three because of the children being the subject. I felt more pulled into her images that focus on children. ||
 * = Viewing Skill: ||= They would have seen others images of the time and have something to relate these images to. They also lived in this time period and new what to expect. ||= Related to these images and others of the time, none. I'm not big on photography, like looking at it just to look at it. I don't read the newspapers so I wouldn't see images like this of our times unless they were published online. ||
 * = Viewer's Physical Environment: ||= They lived in the city. They were from the lower/working class. ||= I live in the suburbs and have viewed the images from a computer screen ||

I found Tim Smith's presentation to be really insightful. He talked to us about Media Theory and about Montage Theory; the ways in which they relate to visual rhetoric. He went into detail on how we are confronted with visual rhetoric through film and images. His main concept was to divulge into the ways in which we use visual rhetoric in teaching and writing. The messages that we receive tell us that we need to do something yet we are so unaware of how these things are affecting us. I think that one of the big ideas for Tim in going into a field such as this is to get a better grasp (a better understanding) on how we are being manipulated by these things. In relation to our Rhetorical Analysis papers, I think that he wanted to get across the point that we need to look at what is not present in the image, look beyond but you can see. There is a reason the photographer chose to only include what they did... we need to figure out why. He also said to look at the time period and what else was being photograph at this time and what other works the photographer was producing at this time. Most importantly, look for a trend to connect the pictures- something that makes them flow together and explains why we chose to place them together this way.
 * Week 7: Tim Smith's Presentation **
 * March 8, 2012 **

**Week 4: Context, Metaphor, Identification, Ethos, and Pathos Notes** on 1RA page (February 13 and February 17)

**Week 3: Pictures** on 1RA page (February 8)

**Week 2: Glossary Term** //- noun// People who are without gravitas, the seriousness of something, typically an individual's character; people who need not be taken seriously; they reach compromises by talking among themselves. "Rhetorical People, as we have seen, trim their principles to fit their circumstances." Ramage, 7. (Chandler Wilson)
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