Analepsis (2003-04) presents a depiction of various locations from satellite television news broadcasts. The images scan locations, landscapes, and familiar infrastructures broadcast sequentially during a news report. This mode of presentation generates an illusion of coherence and chronological continuity in news from different parts of the world, offering the viewer a world view possibly natural, possibly media generated. In this work Snyder isolated the images from their news narrative, without sound, subtitles or news company logo. The sequence of images follows the chronological order of the broadcast, yet it is divided by camera movements to expose camera techniques in news coverage. Those who watch the news regularly may identify identical images repeated in different reports. When a given channel lacks up-todate video footage about unrest on the Temple Mount, for example, it will broadcast existing stills or video footage of the Temple Mount, regardless of the current events, to accompany the narrated story. Loyal viewers of a given network are likely to discern stock photographs extracted from databases, used as support for a specific item, because a picture is worth a thousand words.
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