Any topic (writer’s choice)

Is making art out of issues raised by globalization socially useful, neutral, or counter-productive? In what ways? How might Burtynskys documents and/or Cole’s or Luttringer’s alter the way the viewer thinks about globalization? Use a minimum of 12 photographs, 4 from each of the three photographers to discuss in detail and to support the points you make in your essay.

Read:

The Globalization Website, Emory University. http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/theories.html

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/

http://www.lensculture.comeburtynsky

Please watch the following interview on YouTube: http://www.twine.com/item/12rcmfth3-192/youtube-edward-burtynsky-photographs-the-landscape-of-oil

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/oil/

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//006356.html

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/edward-burtynskys-epic-landscapes/amp?client=safari

Paula Luttringer Political Torture in Argentina
Paula Luttringer
http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/recovering-remembering-returning-the-wailing-of-the-walls-by-paula-luttringer/

Ernest Cole and South Africa Under Apartheid
http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2014/9/ernest-cole-photographerofapartheid.html

http://www.americanphotomag.com/article/2014/09/notes-ernest-cole-hidden-witness-to-apartheid