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Ways of Seeing

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 )

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Ways of Seeing

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  1. Ways of Seeing Narrative medicine

  2. 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)

  3. Write a description of this image

  4. 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)

  5. Frame: The location of the image • Where does this take place? • Time? • Location?

  6. Form: Genre, metaphor, allusions?

  7. 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)?

  8. Metaphor or allusion?

  9. Content: what is in the image?

  10. 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

  11. Composition: relationships Centre/Margins Left/Right Top/Bottom Gaze and Gesture

  12. Composition: relationships Centre/Margins Left/Right Top/Bottom Gaze and Gesture

  13. Desire: how do you feel about this picture?

  14. Write about the painting again

  15. NYU Literature, Arts & Medicine http://litmed.med.nyu.edu

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