Visual rhetoric

Both examples of the visual rhetoric go about the issue in two ways. The first example of “No Seconds” depicts the last supper situation with pictures of only the meals already prepared and a written description with the name of the prisoner, their age, the state, what they were accused of, how they were killed, a list of the food they were severed as their last meal and any other little facts of information. The food is pictured in an almost suburban way and most of the meals are incased in fairly nice silverware. The pictures are taken from over the meal. The pictures have an almost eerie and creepy feel about them even though some of them look like they would not be completely out of place in a home goods magazine because you know that was the last meal that was eaten by someone. The second example of “The Last Meal Project” depicts basically the same subject with some differences. It shows a picture of the prisoner and then the ingredients of the meal. There is a written description with the name, the meal, the sentence, the execution time and the state. There are also various facts about the process of the death sentence shuffled within the pictures of the meals and prisoners.

The second example more examples of choices of meals that were not actually meals. It is hard to tell whether or not that is a more accurate sampling of what the inmates would normally have wanted. Both of the examples use a typewriter font which makes the examples seem more like memos.

I feel like the second example has you see the prisoner and the ingredients as objects. It gives you the facts and then you kind of imagine what that would have been like for them. The first example, on the other hand, gives you the perspective of the inmate as they were about to eat their last meal, even though it is probably depicted a little bit more glamorous than it would have been in actuality. The first example speaks to me more even though it is more visually sugar coated.