After reading Behold the Corpse it made me think of many other images and the discourse that it has caused. The one that stood out to me is the photo of The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abe Smith in Indiana in 1930
This picture caused so much discourse that song was written and inspired by the violent nature of this photo. This song was peformed by Billie Holiday and Written by Abel Meeropol. He wrote this song in protest to the extreme racism that was going and that is seen in this photo. Seeing pictures of lynching in public papers pushed him over the edge and he wrote a poem about it because the photo haunted him for days. Once that poem was published in a teachers union publication the poem was then set to music by amature and heard by a night club owner who gave it to Billie Holiday.
This just shows how a images can cause so much discourse, this imaged is still talked about and debated until this day, not to mention the song that this image inspired is known as one of the most influential songs in African-American history.