In chapter 14 it mainly talks about how powerful a picture can actually be to an audience. While you can spend endless hours and hours writing to an audience trying to convince them in what you believe. A picture in itself is worth a thousand words. One of the reason pictures are as useful as a tool is because they can evoke any feelings that the photographer wants from the audience. For example one of the more recent famous pictures came from the Vancouver hockey riot after the Stanley cup match. In the picture theirs a couple laying on the ground kissing while a scene of violence is happening all around them. It quickly became a real live modern day love story in a picture. Even though there was no alterative motive behind the picture, it shows how much meaning a simple picture can bring to the public. If a photographer wanted to purposely want the audience to think a certain way he can manipulate a photo until it takes the shape of the meaning he wanted it to. Pictures are also a good persuasive tool because it makes the audience imagine themselves in the picture when they see it or to at least feel what’s going on in the picture
Being a free-time cooperative photographer for a few magazines and newspaper, where both of my parents are working at, I agree with you that the power of photography is imaginable! When I was living in Virginia, my dad wants me to take a couple pictures and write a short descriptive article about the beautiful fall, which the Virginians are proud of. Needless to say, my writing wasn't that good; but the pictures that I took really help me a lot in showing people the breathtaking beauty of different-colored maple leaves swirling with the wind. So yeah, powerful pictures are definitely a very good persuasive tool, especially in visual arguments.
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