Poster #144 - Leading with the Image: A Visual Provocation II (Images that Offend)

• In Event: ASC Poster Session II

Abstract

Michelle Brown (2017: 286) has proposed that “[h]ow we understand and configure the present asks that we think expansively about what it might mean to pursue an open-ended future, starting with our foundations: the image of crime.” Photographs, in particular, are records of events of the past, but they also create, open up and unlock a “language of possibility” (Jurovics 2013: 12 (quoted in Brisman 2017: 533)). The images in this “poster,” produced by a diverse array of scholars, researchers, and practitioners, attempt to develop and communicate (with) this “language of possibility.” To do so—to place primacy on the images, themselves—we exhibit our photographs with minimal supporting text. Viewers will be asked to engage with these images as images. Their subject matter relates variously to objects, situations or words that offend (recognizing that what may trouble the artist/photographer may not impact the viewer in the same way—and vice versa).

Authors

• Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University

• Michael Fiddler, University of Greenwich

• Katherine Biber, University of Technology Sydney

• Reece Burns, Edge Hill University

• Elaine Campbell, Newcastle University

• Anna Di Ronco, University of Bologna

• Murray Lee, University of Sydney

• Travis Linnemann, Kansas State University

• Bill McClanahan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Katarina McGuire, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Rita Shah, Eastern Michigan University

• Nicholas Walrath, Kansas State University

• Linda Wilken, University of Sydney

• Kalel Yates, Eastern Kentucky University

• Alison Young, University of Melbourne