Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 45-57 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Visual Communication Quarterly |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2021 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Education
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