What Is This a Picture Of?: Some Thoughts on Images and Archives

Finnegan, Cara A.

doi:10.1353/rap.2006.0023

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“…The images were widely used in government literature, and were distributed free of charge to news agencies, book and periodicals publishers. They were also supplied for exhibitions (FSA/OWI ; Melville , 11; Finnegan , 53–56, Finnegan ; Cohen , xxv–xxvi; Stange , 108–11).…”

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“…Cataloguing the photographs by the Library of Congress relied substantially on information contained in captions (FSA/OWI ; Fleischhauer and Brannan 330–42). It should be noted that historians have explored the way in which the contentious and inevitably subjective schema used to classify photographs can transform interpretations of the image (Finnegan ; Rose ; Trachtenberg ).…”

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Accounting and Preserving the American Way of Life

Walker

2015

Contemporary Accting Res

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Responding to calls to instate the visual in accounting history research, this study utilizes photographic images to reveal the role of accounting in the attempt to preserve an ideal (ruralism) and an institution (the family farm) in the United States. These elemental features of the American way of life were threatened during the interwar depression, resulting in governmental programs to secure their restoration. The analysis of official imagery reveals how the accounting prescriptions attending state intervention in agriculture were deemed conducive to the fortification of the economic, social and political foundations of agrarian living. Documentary photographs propagated the notion that accounting facilitated companionate marriage and the inclusive family. They also suggested that accounting was a focus for encouraging the communitarian endeavor, democratic participation and receptivity to state interventionism considered necessary to preserve the rural mode of living.

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Accounting and Preserving the American Way of Life

Walker

2015

Contemporary Accting Res

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“…Relational architecture builds on scholarly work that exemplifies how researchers can and do read and respond productively (Enoch & VanHaitsma, 2015;Finnegan, 2006;Gaillet, 2012;Graban, 2013;Gries, 2013), and further develops methodologies that pushes back against the power inherent in the voices of official resources (Kirsch & Royster, 2010;Kirsch & Sullivan, 1992;Royster & Williams, 1999) to make the infrastructure itself able to support multiplicity, transparency, and evolving connectivity. Pulling back not only to view, but also to construct, the infrastructure of the archive as rhetorical means allows researchers to be contributing users who are more akin to "prosumers," blending former distinctions between experts and novices (VanHaitsma, 2015, p. 38), a markedly different approach to the suffering researcher so vividly described in the book Dust (Steedman, 2001).…”

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Systems Shift: Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration

2023

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“…Not every exigence is rhetorical; for an exigence to be rhetorical, it must be open to modification or improvement through discourse. The definition of discourse, which initially meant only spoken and written language, has broadened thanks to rhetoric scholars in general and RGS scholars in particular, who have developed a more capacious understanding that accounts for all visual, multimodal, and embodied practices used to create meaning and modify situations (Arola & Wysocki, ; Blair, ; Finnegan, ). Consequently, we argue that the new call on the VA to acknowledge and serve LGBT veterans is a rhetorical exigence—a situation that is open to modification and improvement through written, oral, multimodal, and embodied rhetorics.…”

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Serving All Who Served: An Analysis of the VA's Visual and Digital Rhetorics for Welcoming Sexual and Gender Minority Veterans Into VA Care

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Ware³

2019

World Med & Health Policy

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Nearly one million veterans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and could be eligible for services provided by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). Historical criminalization of service members prior to and during the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy created social and cultural barriers to LGBT veterans seeking VA care. To date, no studies have assessed the implementation of the VA's efforts to create a welcoming environment for LGBT veterans. This study fills that gap by using rhetorical genre studies to analyze how official http://VA.gov websites position and address LGBT veterans. Our results indicate that rhetorical and discursive strategies deployed on the VAMC web sites betray information asymmetries reflecting varying levels of ambition and commitment to inclusion of LGBT veterans. With a focus on techne, we conclude with research‐based recommendations for VA practitioners, administrators, and policymakers to improve patient‐provider communication through public digital rhetorics.

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What Is This a Picture Of?: Some Thoughts on Images and Archives

Cited by 24 publications

References 6 publications

Accounting and Preserving the American Way of Life

Accounting and Preserving the American Way of Life

Systems Shift: Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration

Serving All Who Served: An Analysis of the VA's Visual and Digital Rhetorics for Welcoming Sexual and Gender Minority Veterans Into VA Care

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