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Question 1: How do the authors distinguish between "seeing" and "looking"?

Question 2: Define representation. Can representation be defied or subverted?

Question 3: What is the "myth of photographic truth"? Define subjective choice and how it connects with the photograph as "evidence"? How has technology impacted the "truth-value" of the photograph?

Question 4: Discuss Roland Barthes' two levels of meaning for an image. How does Barthes use and connect the term "myth" to the image?

Question 5: Describe ideology and its connections to the image. Define propaganda. How does propaganda connect to ideology?

Question 6: How does the portrait image of O.J. Simpson figure into the discussion of Ideology and cultural power?

Question 7: What does Saussure argue in his theory of Semiotics? How has his theories been used in visual theory and analysis?

Question 8: How is value conceived of and applied to art/visual imagery? What other kinds of values adhere to images in our culture? What is meant by icons? How does this connect to value? Can icons be subverted?