the theory of semiotics, text and image
as political tools in the work of Jacob Riis, the FSA, «Have you Seen Their Faces», and «Let Us Now Praise Famous Men», captions and photographs in the picture magazine and weekly tabloid, Pat Ward Williams's handwritten retellings, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan's photo essay parody, Bill Owen, Gay Block, and Clarissa Sligh's stories of suburbia and
family, photographs that counter the voice of authority, posters by the Guerrilla Girls, installations by Carrie Mae Weems and Glenn Ligon, instructional text in the work of Erwin Wurm, Gillian Wearing, Tony Oursler, and the spoken word, pictures of words, appropriation and photomontage, Adbusters, The Billboard Liberation Front and cultural jamming, and more...