Using Photographs to Teach the Human Rights of Children Caught Up in Armed Conflicts

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsTracey HollandTracey Holland, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies, Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Email: trholland@vassar.eduElizabeth NogradyElizabeth Nogrady, Mellon Curator of Academic Programs, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Email: elnogrady@vassar.eduNotes1 For more recent critiques, including those by artists, see Sayej (2018 Sayej, N. (2018, November 28). “The art world tolerates abuse”—The fight to change museum wall labels. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/28/the-art-world-tolerates-abuse-the-fight-to-change-museum-wall-labels[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]). On transparency in museum labels, see Cotter (2020 Cotter, H. (2020, March 18). America’s big museums on the hot seat. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/arts/design/how-to-save-museums.html [Google Scholar]).2 This article originally appeared as “Understanding a Photograph” in Selected Essays and Articles: The Look of Things (1972) by John Berger. The original author(s) and the publisher(s) retain all rights to this article. Please do not distribute or reproduce.