Thursday, April 24, 2008

Data Collection Ideas Part III

Hey, I've been pouring through image search results. One way I've thought about organizing these is by how/where Che images are used. My preliminary search through Google Image search results fell pretty cleanly into one of the following categories.

- fine art
- news/editorial
- political left groups
- political right groups
- merchandise

Some ways to broaden this search could include searching for editorial stock images, flicker, Che art, and searching historic mass media.

In terms of field data, Che has been pretty elusive recently, so maybe we should lean toward interviewing people on their response to the Che image instead of people directly wearing or selling it? Some groups of interest could be Hot Topic/Zoomies customers, whoever is least like these people, Getty Image employees, graffiti artists, UW's socialist club (is there a Republican club too?), or faculty on campus in sociology/anthropology departments.

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