Melissa Begey: Diverse UC Workers and their Workplaces
The image's subject appears to be the diverse, yet unequal, UC workforce.
Analytic (Question)
The image's subject appears to be the diverse, yet unequal, UC workforce.
Upon viewing these images, I would like to know more about the context in which they were originally taken. Why did the photographer for the Union (and the editors of the publication choose to include these images, and in particular, images that look very similar to ones found in advertisements selling a product or a service.
My intial reaction to this image was confusion - why is it that the subjects are posed in this way? What does this contextualization of their labor, and their exaggerated smiles - do for the images? What do the images want? (W. J. T. Mitchell)