What you need to do before class:
1) Post a response (to your tumblr) to the two readings (by Trevor Paglen and Erol Morris). One possible thing to consider: Morris concludes "photographs are neither true nor false in and of themselves," while Paglen asserts that "all images are like cave paintings" in that "they can't explain or narrate much of anything at all." Both authors, however, make and work with images for a living. What do you think of this duality - that images are simultaneously powerful and powerless things?
* See some more of the pictures selected by Paglen and the research team for Last Pictures. I'll bring the book for anyone who wants to see more.