Citizen Photojournalism.

This is an image of 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York.  It could be argued that this event started the ‘War on Terrorism’.  In the image, we see a skyscraper emerging from the city skyline.  At the top of this skyscraper, there is a huge cloud of smoke, dust and debris.  From this, we can tell that some sort of explosion has happened, and later that day we would learn that two planes brought these iconic towers down.  This image was published in a few magazines and a few online articles as well. 

The Other - Jacques Lacan.

Lacan’s explanantion of the “other”, is that we use the other in order to help us learn what we need to seprate from so that we can develop into properly functioning adults.  For example ‘it is a fictional image of ourselves (such as a mirror image) which we tend to identify with, and yet we must learn to conceive of as separate from the physical body’.  (Cavallaro, D, Critical and Cultural Theory, pg 121) So we must learn that image that we see of ourselves, is made up, by ourselves, and by the others around us.  We take the opinions on to ourselves.