This article critically analyzes a pair of photographs from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017: Samuel Corum’s nighttime image of torch-bearing protesters on the University of Virginia campus and Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning daytime image of counterprotesters falling through the air as James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into them, killing Heather Heyer. Using a close reading of the images as texts—considering their production, contrasts, and resonances—we argue that the photographs form a temporal, technical, and theoretical diptych of anger, hate, fear, confusion, and sorrow.

本文严格分析了2017年8月在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔举行的团结右翼集会上的两张照片：塞缪尔·克鲁姆（Samuel Corum）在弗吉尼亚大学校园内手持火炬的抗议者的夜间图像，以及瑞安·凯利（Ryan Kelly）普利策奖获奖的白天图像，其反抗议者正在倒下小詹姆斯·A·菲尔德斯（James A. Fields Jr.）将车撞向他们，杀死了希瑟·海耶（Heather Heyer）。通过仔细阅读这些图像作为文本（考虑它们的产生，对比和共鸣），我们认为这些照片形成了愤怒，憎恨，恐惧，困惑和悲伤的时间，技术和理论上的双重表现。