1. How Images Communicate Information

3. Images are important tools used to communicate information and to engage history.

5. Images evoke thoughts, provide indicators about the context of culture, and enhance the human experience.

7. Images aid the neurological functions of the human brain and enables emotional learning to occur in shaping attitudes, thinking, and behavior.

9. Images provide emotional templates, which can affect one’s communication, ideas, and actions.

12. Representation theory investigates how images mediate between our internal and external worlds, examining how an image can represent something from the real world in the mind of a person.

17. “To show forth a claim, an appearance, a truth, a state of affairs, a policy, a speaker, or an audience, through words spoken or written, or through images, structures or any human creation, is to engage in rhetoric.” - Thomas W. Benson

20. How Images Communicate Information

21. What is the symbolic message of the next five images? What do they communicate

27. Were these symbolic patriotic images accurately representing the US, its history and its foundational ideals?

28. What about the next image?

38. What do the images you create and collect communicate about you?

39. Discussion and Questions?

40. More pictures, different tone…what do theses images communicate and why?

42. The All-time Greats…plus…

44. Pay attention to the next one…