Wk 2 Blog Post: Seeing, Representation and Power Dynamics

Sturken and Cartwright’s Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture largely reminds of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, a book that I read a few years ago. Berger’ talks about how seeing comes before words. This indicates how visual representations always have a greater claim over verbal or written representations. What is seen is usually put into words in an attempt to describe it, but during the process some…