Emotional Visuals

Although my ideas on my paper are still all over the place and not very organized, I plan on writing about the connection between visuals and they're connection to history. What I want to do is show how visuals create emotions and a personal connection while the text is there to provide facts and whatnot. They are both dependent on each other to create a understandable account of what had happened so that audiences can relate to their nations history. I really think it is an important element because history is necessary for each person to truly understand. My main example is how pictures from past devastating events allow people to really put themselves in that situation and feel what the people in the event may feel. Also, i use textbooks as an example and how more recent events usually have more photos because it makes it easier for the reader to connect rather than using paragraphs of words to try to convey the emotion of the event.