Propaganda: How Images Influence Us

The frozen people who surround us

We’ve surrounded by frozen people.

When you stop and think about it for a second — it’s kind of strange.

That every time you step outside you’re confronted of hundreds of images of people frozen in time.

On advertising billboards by the side of the road. On your social media newsfeed. In the newspaper. Frozen people are everywhere.

The photograph was invented in 1826 by Nicéphore Niépce. Since then, images of people frozen still have appeared all around us. Nowadays we’re completely accustom to seeing these images everywhere. So much so that we don’t give them a second thought.

But if you were able to travel back in time to the 1500’s, pick a stranger at random and show them a simple photograph — they would probably think it was witchcraft or a message from god.

Perhaps it’s worth taking a second to think about these images we see everywhere, because…

Most images carry a message.

Images are a medium. Just like the telephone or the email. Images are a method of communicating with others.