distorted images

The article "Image Culture", by Christen Rosen is an interesting topic since it talks about how the media uses image in our world to manipulate and change ones perspective. Some people can be constantly looking at an image but in different ways, such as horror movies. People time and time again grow accustom to these images that we grow numb to them, we grow numb to violence.

But in some sense it could be a good thing; people can then twist and spin the image to their liking. People can decide what best suits them, what they chose to believe, giving choice back to the viewers. But to all good things there are often drawbacks, for example people could see President Lincoln in one photo, yet the point of time is not the same, instead it is some other president’s background just Lincoln was inserted into the frame. This is the drawback, what we as the viewers see as an historical moment in time, to be false and warped. It was funny how people themselves can manipulate the media in their own views even to their own personal profit. Makes you wonder what is true or what is untrue one could say, anything now a days can be distorted. False advertisements are some of these big issues.

With such technological advances these days, it’s hard to trust our own eyes, hoping that they don’t lead us astray. Images are just like texts, there are more than meets the eye, in other words there is more to the texts that you’re reading and the images you are viewing. Images can be easily manipulated just as images can. Makes you wonder even more who is being distorted the image or yourself?