8. A picture may well be worth a thousand words, but as historical documents, photographs are subject to the same questions as written documents. Despite initial appearances, photographs are not objective. Photographic images were created for specific purposes and for audiences.

No photograph can be accepted as “representative” of a way of life without additional documentation.

The many factors that influenced what photographs show include the wishes and capabilities of the photographers, and the responses of [their subjects].

Victoria Wyatt, Images from the Inside Passage: An Alaskan Portrait by Winter & Pond (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989).

Cultural Arguments. above is a passage. Each uses one of the four methods for stating a point of view described in Box 3.2. These ways of organizing speech are deductive, inductive, abductive, and narrative. For each passage, identify the pattern used and justify your selection. What is the stated or implied viewpoint of the writer or speaker? How does he or she support it?