Picture Imperfect Rhetorical Analysis

The Importance of an Audience
Throughout the world literacy and photography have inspired individuals by how they point their message across to the viewers. They have the power to attract and inspire others in how skillfully they write or in how they draw and take photos. In the article “Picture Imperfect” by Jed Perl, he explains photography is not one hundred percent accurate evidence for their spectators. Due to this, both literacy and photography connect to each other by depending on their audience for judgment. But in the other hand, the role of literacy exceeds the role of photography because it helps the audience target the final analysis in ways that pictures cannot as noted in the article “The New Literacy” by Clive Thompson. Before
Thompson believes the audience has an immense role in literacy while Perl claims the audience makes the last finding in a photograph. Through this, the audience is privileged to critique on their work because without them everything would be bogus. You need an audience in order to revise your writing because you need feedback to enhance your work for publicity. You need an audience to complete a scenario in a photograph not just by looking at the 2-D form in a photograph but by looking at it through every dimension. Both Perl and Thompson present their ideas with detailed and supported ideas to attract the reader’s attention by connecting their train of thought. They both exemplify real research examples that augment the main idea. This helps the reader understand their final thoughts. From my perspective, I can relate to being a teenager and writing formal for a school paper or changing the format when I write letters to my boyfriend in the USMC. As for viewing a photograph, I tend to believe every expression, place, person shown in a picture. From now on I will see photographs in a different way to discover the truth behind what is not