1. Find or create two photographs with contrasting meanings. Our photographs depict a department store mannequin and an industrially produced statue of the Madonna.
2. Working in an 8-x-8-inch square, combine one or both images with a text. Crop and isolate elements of the text and image to bring focus to the form and message.
The Text:
The many-sidedness of human experience is seriously threatened
by the common denominator of mass communication. That is
why designers who are concerned by the corporate take-over of
expression must first allow themselves sufficient room to maneuver for a dissident attitude vis-a-vis the normative determination of the
media culture.—Jan van Toorn
BMCC Art 100, Professor Reinhardt 