Dienstag, 29. Dezember 2015

Aus Beitrag von Hans Durrer in soundcapes.info:










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Right: Photo taken by the White House photographer on Sunday night, May 2, 2011, as President Barack Obama and his national security team monitored the covert operation against Bin Laden"Aghast, Hillary Clinton clutches her hand to her mouth. Obviously, she observes a matter of life and death," commented psychologist Martin Schuster the photograph at the right for the German weekly Der Spiegel, and he continued: "Many fold their arms or hide them behind their backs. Given the situation shown, it is possible to interpret this as discomfort or even as sense of guilt."
In the Zurich daily, Tages-Anzeiger, communication consultant Marcus Knill, stated: "The picture is reminiscent of a group who watches an important soccer game or a brutal movie. Yet this is about watching an execution, and that live — very much like on an execution square in the Middle Ages. A similar photo could have been taken in the White House on the occasion of the Columbia-disaster in 2003." And, Miriam Meckel, professor of communication at the University of St. Gallen, wrote that the media reactions to Clinton's photo suggest that she is not allowed to show her fear.
Next To interpret photographs in such ways does not tell us anything about the photographs, it only tells us something about the interpreters. As the Talmud states: We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
We do know now what was on the minds of the interpreters when they were looking at this pic — quite some things that were not visible on the picture shown. Needless to say, this isn't exactly helpful — if we're interested in the picture, that is.

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