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“Viewer discretion is advised” will be shown on the screen at the very beginning when every time I am watching “Prison Break”. Because it contains scenes of violence and coarse language for adult audiances, and should be guided when teenagers are watching it. Different people may considered different meanings when he watching an Ad. This may differ from “who is doing the looking”, or “who is the ideal or the intended view”. “We can have intense relationships with images precisely because of the power they have both to give us pleasure and to allow us to articulate our desires through looking.”

An important term we talked about this week is “the gaze”-it is a way that is to look or stare, often with eagerness or desire in common sense. However, the concept of the gaze has been developed to focus on inquiry in both art history and film studies, with different emphases. From the 19th century, photographers use photographs to identify criminals-like the Adam Photographic Cabinet. The public could get informations of how did criminals look like. That was the idea what those images represented. However, some of the them do not look like they could do bad things to the societies from my view point. This is the power of images, it can influnence the mind of what do people thinkings in society. Later, this was widely used to find the murderer of the United States’ president-Abraham Linclon. The United States War Department made a reward poster to encourage citizens to provide information of the murderer of the president. After that, a reporter named Alexander Gardner was picked up by the secret agency to be the only one official reporter who can reported for execution of the murderer. By publishing his photographs, the government appeased the wrath of the public and warned other criminals.

Physiognomy images embark on shown the different styles of different nations. We can distinguish the life style of Arab patrician and European’s from what they wearing, their behaviours, and the background shown on images. Every nation has their own cultures, clothing, architectures, these all can be viewed on physiognomy images. French painter Paul Gauguin made many paintings of the people of Tahiti and other French colonies. These paintings produce meanings of discourses of race, gender, and colonialism. The women in Gauguin’s paintings are specifically coded as other, in particular as the exotic other who represent a world supposedly unspoiled by modern civilization, a paradise. “These images operate within the binary oppositions of civilization/nature, white/other, and male/female, establishing the women in them as exotic, different. and other to both the painter and viewer.”

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