| Since we have entered The Era of Picture, visual communication has become dominant in all the human communications. Sheltered by the visual pictures, there exist varieties of covert rhetoric and culture.The news photos on newspaper could convey certain information and culture on purpose through invisible language such as selecting, adjusting, editing and intensifying of the images, which constitute the unique rhetoric of pictures.With the content and the text analyses of the 219 selected pictures published on the New York's Times between 2004 and 2005, the thesis focuses on seeing the invisible rhetoric of news photos on English newspaper. On the basis of the media comparative research, the thesis also analyzes the similarities and differences of photos on English newspaper and Chinese newspaper. All efforts come to the aim of exploring the problems of the news photos on Chinese newspaper, which will further improve the development of visual communication in China. |
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