Ways of Seeing
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Ways of SeeingNarrative medicine
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Today’s session Focus on observation & description How do we describe images? How do images tell stories?
Task: 1. Write a description of an image (10 mins)2. Think about how images are constructed. (25
mins)3. Rewrite the description of the image (15 mins)
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Write a description of this image
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Systematic observation1. frame (the location of the image)2. form (the genre and its meanings; the
metaphors and allusions used)3. content (what is in the image, and their
associations for the viewer)4. composition (the relationship between the
objects/people in the image)5. desire (the viewer’s response)
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Frame: The location of the image
Where does this take place? Time? Location?
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Form: Genre, metaphor, allusions?
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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)?
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Metaphor or allusion?
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Content: what is in the image?
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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 Dr Tsungming Tu
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Composition: relationshipsCentre/Margins
Left/Right
Top/Bottom
Gaze and Gesture
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Composition: relationshipsCentre/Margins
Left/Right
Top/Bottom
Gaze and Gesture
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Desire: how do you feel about this picture?
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Write about the painting again
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NYU Literature, Arts & Medicine
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu