Suggestions for Doing Analysis of Visual Image

1.    Check out pages 8-9 in The Presence of Others. 

2.    Your primary focus is on the meaning that this image has for you--and how it came to have this meaning (or meanings)?  To this end, the following questions may be helpful.  However, do not just list your answers.  You want this analysis to read more like an essay than a sequence of freewrites:
        a.    What do you see when you look at this image/object?  How do you account for what you see?
        b.    What feeling(s) do you get when you see this image/object?  How do you account for what you feel?
        c.    What are the parts of the image/object?  How would you describe them?  (Remember the difference between
                how Carrie described her dolls hat and how Marcos described it.)
        d.    What stories lie behind the image/object that give it the meaning that it has?
        e.    What people, other images/objects, places, ideas do you associate with this image/object?  Does this image/object
                serve to connect you with a certain set of people?
        f.     If there were just ONE word or phrase that you could use that summed up the meaning of this image/object, what
                would it be?
        g.    What does this image/object tell us about you?  (Remember what Carrie said about her doll.) 
        h.    What purpose/function does it have in your life?  How does it achieve that purpose/function?
        i.      Is there any way in which you have mixed feelings or thoughts about this image/object?