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Ways of SeeingNarrative medicine
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)
Write a description of this image
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Systematic observation
1. 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)
Frame: The location of the image
Where does this take place? Time? Location?
Form: Genre, metaphor, allusions?
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)?
Metaphor or allusion?
Content: what is in the image?
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
Composition: relationships
Centre/Margins
Left/Right
Top/Bottom
Gaze and Gesture
Composition: relationships
Centre/Margins
Left/Right
Top/Bottom
Gaze and Gesture
Desire: how do you feel about this picture?
Write about the painting again
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NYU Literature, Arts & Medicine
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu