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Today's session focuses on observing and describing images. Explore how images convey stories and emotions. Practice describing an image, analyzing its construction, and rewriting its description. Understand the systematic observation frame to analyze the image's location, form, content, composition, and viewer response.
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Ways of Seeing Narrative medicine
Today’s session • Focus on observation & description • How do we describe images? • How do images tell stories? • Task: • Write a description of an image (10 mins) • Think about how images are constructed. (25 mins) • Rewrite the description of the image (15 mins)
Systematic observation frame(the location of the image) form(the genre and its meanings; the metaphors and allusions used) content(what is in the image, and their associations for the viewer) composition(the relationship between the objects/people in the image) desire(the viewer’s response)
Frame: The location of the image • Where does this take place? • Time? • Location?
Form: genre • What is the difference between a photograph and a painting? • Does the painting attempt to • give a faithful image of an event (realist)? • show how the viewer perceives the scene (impressionist)? • portray an essential or hidden reality (abstract)? • manipulate your emotions (expressionist)?
Content: what story does the painting tell?? • David and Marjorie Landsborough • Kim Yao Chiu • The Christian hospital in Chunghua, 1928 • Artist: Shi Qiao Li, commissioned by DrTsungmingTu
Composition: relationships Centre/Margins Left/Right Top/Bottom Gaze and Gesture
Composition: relationships Centre/Margins Left/Right Top/Bottom Gaze and Gesture
NYU Literature, Arts & Medicine http://litmed.med.nyu.edu